This is the sixteenth installment of Mercedes Schneider’s analysis of the board of the National Council on Teacher Quality.
Mercedes is a teacher in Louisiana who holds a Ph.D. in statistics and research methods. As a teacher, she wanted to know about the organization that is now evaluating teacher preparation programs around the nation.
Tomorrow she will release her overview of the entire series.
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Money makes the world go round!
At what point will our GDP be driven solely by the negative externalities foisted on us by profit-driven corporate sociopaths?
Take a look at this analysis of consumer price index.
http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/CPI-Category-Overview.php
It gives new meaning to the “chained CPI” when you take a look at the rising costs of education and health care.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/what-is-chained-cpi-20121231
The treasury has printed boatloads of money 3 times through quantitative easing. Normally, that would trigger widespread inflation, but this is camouflaged by imports of so many cheep goods. Not true when it comes to labor.
And those Wall Street folk know that!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-19/fed-s-fisher-says-u-s-inflation-expectations-rising.html
Needless to say, Wall Street will demand market-based “efficiencies” that will promote both virtual education and health care. As to the latter, here is another good link.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/ibms-watson-goes-to-med-school
“Open the pod bay doors, HAL” is what astronaut Dave Bowman said to the computer HAL (“heuristic algorithmic programmed”) after Dave retrieved the body of his murdered fellow astronaut, Frank Bowman, and attempted to reenter the space ship Discovery.
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