The Day, a Connecticut publication, reports more problems for Terrence Carter, applicant for the superintendency at New London, who used the title “Dr.” and “Ph.D.” without having earned the title.
The Day reports that sections of Carter’s job application were identical to other publications. That is known as plagiarism and is unacceptable in school or higher education.
“New London – At least 10 paragraphs in the two-page essay Terrence P. Carter submitted with his application for the city’s superintendent of schools job contain material apparently copied from other sources without attribution, including academic journals, news articles and websites.
“In some cases, entire paragraphs of Carter’s March application are exactly the same as writings that previously appeared in other publications.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I’m shocked…Shocked! (With apologies to Claude Rains)
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He was also issued a CT 092 administrative provisional certification for eight years by our commissioner, Stefan Pryor. Now they are back peddling and freezing his app, but only because of all the bad publicity. Otherwise he was to sail through smoothly to follow orders.
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Well hopefully this will be a bullet narrowly missed. Lord knows Connecticut doesn’t need any more Chicago rejects – as if Vallas wasn’t bad enough.
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And now Bridgeport has bounced the ball (Vallas) back into our court–thanks, Bridgeport! (No–I’m just kidding–kudos to you for getting rid of him, & shame on Pat Quinn for choosing him as the Lt. Gov. candidate!) In all seriousness, how much did Bridgeport have to pay to get rid of him? I’m asking, partly, because my understanding is that Carter went back to the New London Bd. “all lawyered up,” & a commenter on this blog opined that Carter was doing that to scare up some cash out of the N.L. Board, ala Vallas.
Does someone in Bridgeport know about any cash settlement w/Paul?
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As if Duncan isn’t bad enough!
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If I child in the New London Public Schools committed plagiarism, they would be suspended, failed, etc. This is really disgraceful.
Maria
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How did he get an 092? Who issued the cert?
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Linda, I just found the answer to your question and mine here:
http://www.theday.com/article/20140723/NWS01/307239954/-1/NWS
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Thank you. But it makes me sick. We work so hard and charlatans get special treatment. He would be in if it were not for parents and CT citizens researching and leaking to the press. Believe me when I tell you this all started with home grown in your Jammie’s research.
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@cosmic tinker.. thanks for the share. Sounds like Carter was never really interested in teaching but in moving himself to a “higher place”… our school superintendents should be teachers whose initial intentions are career teaching who work their way up and see that their skills are suited to leading so they become principals. Some may stop there while others who further demonstrate leadership at the principal level and the ability to move further do so. Carter’s “career” trajectory resembles the “leadership” brand that “Broad Academy” is pushing… no need to say more!
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Well why not hire others who declare they are certified plastic surgeons when in fact they have a four year degree in sociology? Or people who are certified chefs and claim they can drill teeth to put on crowns and caps?
Let’s just hire anyone and take their word about their credentials.
The folks responsible for considering this clown without really vetting him should be taken down as well. They engaged in gross neglect, and the ultimate impact is the effect upon children.
New London’s real estate values are affected by this sort of circus.
Meanwhile, Mr. Carter should go back to school amd major in truthtelling, but make sure it’s a college that is high up in the rankings list set forth by Obama and Duncan. Sounds like Carter went to a college, achieved substandard grades, and is now leading a substandard life.
Yankees in Connecticut: Wake up and run after Terrence Carter with torches and pitchforks . . . .
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Maria,
College students are subject to expulsion.
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In November 2013, the anti-Vallas Bridgeport Board of Education candidates were victorious. The power shifted 5-4 against Vallas. Vallas resigned right after the election. He was well aware that the “rock star” of education reform was about to be fired. There was no settlement paid to Vallas. If the BBOE had terminated him, he would have received one year’s salary which was approximately $228,000.
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Chutzpah.
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GOOD GRIEF! I live in this state. CT had a great reputation. But bad guys can invade any state. But what has happened to our State Department of Education, so tough on certification standards in the past. Even mine, but I had the goods and got certified. How did Vallas slip through and now this Carter person? It makes a mockery of those many past teachers, superintendents and other key educators who had the goods, the degrees, the character to teach CT children or lead entire Districts.
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Gail,
I am also in CT and I have obeyed and followed every directive and jumped through every hoop to earn, renew and update my cert for 28 years. Write to your reps, including Malloy to let them know this is unacceptable. I will do the same. All roads for this fiasco lead to Stefan Pryor and Steven Adamowski. Don’t be fooled by the attempts to throw the NLBOE under the bus.
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They are likely affiliated with TFA or Broad Academy or Rhee or Klein or Kopp or one of the anointed/appointed wonders and rules and laws and requirements just don’t apply. It breaks my brain how this happens, how people who are not truly qualified are getting into positions, often positions of power. TFA kids are getting bogus masters degrees handed to them, along with loan forgiveness, housing assistance, full salaries and perks, and they do not deserve it. Principals and administrators and founders – none of them qualified by their stint at TFA and Relay GSE or some such other nonsense. Anointments/appointments; certifications for the uncertified/unqualified, and these creeps are creating policies to serve/suit their agenda of charters and profiteering, and our President is fine with it; our government is fine with it; they keep bending and changing the rules for themselves and shutting everyone else out. Up is down; down is up.
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Steven Adamowski, when he came back to CT after working in several other states–jumping from one job to another–did not want to take the exams to renew his lapsed CT state administrative license–so he got a legislator to slip an item into a huge package of bills that allowed Adamowski to use his years as “CEO” of Cincinnati’s schools in lieu of the CT exams… the way the waiver was written made it clear that this would only apply to him.
Friends in high places.
He and Pryor probably both agreed to get Carter a provisional administrator’s certificate… thinking no one was looking.
Well, we’ve learned to keep our eyes on them.
What do Stefan Pryor, Steven Adamowski, Paul Vallas, Terrence Carter, and Arne Duncan have in common? Incorrect, insufficient, or non-existent educational credentials and certification.
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Paraphrasing Karen Lewis: FAKE reformers with FAKE credentials pushing FAKE solutions equals REAL failure. Fakety fake fake fake!
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This is HUGE, too:
“Carter’s application also includes his résumé, in which he claims to hold a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University with a major in Africana studies and minor concentrations in elementary education and social work. The university verified Monday that Carter received a degree in Afro-American studies.
But an employee in the Rutgers registrar’s office said the university has no record of Carter being credited with any minor concentration.”
So how could he have been qualified to be a teacher in NJ (or to be a principal in IL, when teaching experiences is required of principals)? Did anyone verify the NJ teaching experience he claimed?
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One article I read said Patterson NJ did not return several phone calls. Reporters are still digging. Two newspapers in CT are not done yet.
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Looks like he took the alternate certification route all the way and circumvented college programs. Was that a TFA type program? I thought even they are supposed to be enrolled in a graduate school teacher prep program to be granted provisional certification and be able to teach.
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I hope they dig deeper into the alternate certification program in NJ because there isn’t even a name provided for it in the article.
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What a scumbag! When it comes to standards and accountability in academia, this guy has no business in education period.
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turnitin.com
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Wow. Virtually everything this guy does is about trying to take the easy way, regardless of ethics or laws. And educators are supposed to be accountable to him?? He needs to get booted out of the field of education asap.
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Geeze. According to his application, that teaching job in Patterson NJ was from 2002 – 2004 and his salary was $75K –as a novice teacher with no training or experience!
Also, the timeline is not consistent with his claim that he taught three different grades in three years, as indicated in the Day.
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He’s a very bad liar but proudly presented by commissioner Pryor a few weeks ago. Egg on face. The FBI has subpoenaed all of Stefan Pryor’s emails for two years due to another fiasco, another fake Dr who was also a convicted felon and the CEO of a charter management company also promoted by Stefan Pryor.
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I think someone high up in the state government promised this guy the position and that explains why he won’t back down. After all, President Obama appointed Arne Duncan to be in charge of the DOE and what was Duncan’s experience in education?
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Lloyd, at this point the fool is such a liability that I don’t see him even being employed in CT. I’m sure he has dirt on others so they will wait till all this blows over before letting him resurface elsewhere. The Lemon Dance of unqualified, corrupt leadership must continue.
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Mr. Moron Duncan can’t even draw with a crayon, and he has to be reminded not to pick his nose in public. Arne also spills his juice box every day all over the president’s pressed suits.
He’s an embarrassment.
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I think, to Obama, the only embarrassment to his masters (think of Bill Gates as one of them) will be if Duncan doesn’t achieve the the Machiavellian Common Core goals to shut down the public schools and get rid of bothersome teachers who don’t keep their mouths shut and do as they are told.
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So, he’ll either withdraw his application and attempt to go to ground for a while or get a job as a consultant based on not spilling the beans on all the dirt he has on the other grifters. Or, a distant third, the reformers will throw him under the bus to make an example of him in an attempt to look like they have integrity and honesty.
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Odds are, he’ll get a job as a consultant, a job on the College Board or some exec-type job with…Pear$on (ALWAY$ Earning, NEVER Learning!).
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Egads…a liar and cheater as superintendent of a school district. Sounds like politics to me!
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Really good piece from a former TFA on Detroit:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/07/the-charter-school-profiteers/
What’s amazing is how the managers and consultants and so on cycle through various jobs, especially because there’s so many lawsuits now on how teachers are hired and fired.
There’s no continuity in the careers, which makes it difficult to do an analysis of past performance in any one job or role. They’re running a school then creating an LLC to sell services to schools then running a foundation. They don’t really have a “record” that follows them because they change roles and job titles.
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Sounds exactly like the careers I mentioned above! Add the Broad residents (check out Yardstick, some sort of punitive corporate “teacher evaluation tool”, invented by a Broad resident who interned under Steven Adamowski and may now be “selling” his business’s wares to a new charter school in CT). Then there are all the TFA-alum-spawned consultancies, MassInsight, Edu-this/edu-that, KIPP charters, Achievement First charter, etc.
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OMG, just reading the article Chiara posted–why the f*&k do they force Mandarin on all these distressed schools?
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OMG! I just read the article. Detroit has Newark beat. Read it everybody.
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This sounds like one of the episodes of the CBS “comedy” “Bad Teacher!” (It was the only one I saw–the show is pretty bad.)
We could make this into a REALITY t.v. show & call it “Bad Administrator.” No–
Ph(ony)D(octorate) would probably be lovin’ it. Steve Perry did!
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Now that I’ve read his whole application, I’m struck not so much by the blatant plagiarism, but by the word-soup of jargon, buzzwords, and cover-all-bases gobbledygook that are apparently required to get hired in ed leadership these days. Even without the plagiarism, one read-thru of this application sets off my bullish*t detector. It’s buzzword salad.
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Unfortunately, this is the new norm for “highly” qualified Superintendents
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That he plagiarized so much for a two page essay for a job application makes you wonder how much plagiarism a check of his PhD thesis* would turn up (*the real one that, I presume, was required by Lesley University in Cambridge, MA , not the virtual one for Degrees R Us, of course)
The really pathetic thing is that when the guy made minor changes to some of the paragraphs that he plagiarized for the application, he actually made them grammatically incorrect
example:
“As a leader for more than 15 years, I have learned that there are many ingredients for success but one stands out above the rest my great communication skills.”
The original had a dash “-” in place of the “my”
The irony of that statement is not lost on most of us.
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Let’s send some more applications to New London. We have some good candidates here.
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