Mercedes Schneider continues her review of the board of the National Council on Teacher Quality.
NCTQ is working with U.S. News to review the quality of the nation’s education schools and colleges.
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Here Mercedes Schneider continues her review of the board of the National Council on Teacher Quality. As her research deepens, she uncovers the links among the big-money investors and their plans to privatize education, turn teachers and children into assets, and monetize public education.
Mercedes Schneider continues her patient and painstaking dissection of the National Council on Teacher Quality board.
In earlier posts, she reviewed the qualifications of Wendy Kopp, Michelle Rhee, Joel Klein and others. In this post, she discovers some real educators on the board of this organization. NCTQ is especially important because it is rating the nation’s teacher education programs.
Who is the miracle reformer of Colorado? Who wrote its law to evaluate teachers by their test scores? Who claimed that his high school graduated 100% of its seniors and sent them to college? Who so lauded by President Obama and DFER? Whose legislation became a model for ALEC? Why, Michael Johnston, of course.
Mercedes Schneider continues her portrait of the board of NCTQ by looking into Johnston’s history. NCTQ is the organization that tells the nation how to get high-quality teachers.
Previous posts by Schneider have included Wendy Kopp, Michelle Rhee, and Joel Klein, who have a cumulative teaching experience of three years among them (Rhee’s).
Mercedes Schneider continues her review of the board of the National Council of Teacher Quality.
Earlier entries reviewed the bios of Wendy Kopp, Michelle Rhee, and other prominent figures whose lives intersect again and again on the boards of the groups seeking control of American education, with the full-throated support of Secretary Arne Duncan.
Here is Joel Klein, the quintessential corporate reformer. This is part 9 of Schneidr’s deconstruction of the corporate reform leadership team at NCTQ.
Here is Michelle Rhee, as reviewed by Mercedes Schneider in part viii of her study of the board of the National Council of Teacher Quality.
Mercedes Schneider is a teacher in Louisiana who holds a Ph.D. In statistics and research methods.
Here she is at her best, doing a close examination of the life and work of Michelle Rhee.
Mercedes Scneider continues her dissection of the nonpartisan National Council on Teacher Quality. This post examines the qualifications of Wendy Kopp.
Mercedes Schneider, Louisiana teacher and Ph.D. in statistics and research methods, has been analyzing the board of the National Council on Teacher Quality. This is the sixth in the series.
Mercedes Schneider has been reviewing the board of the National Council on Teacher Quality.
NCTQ gives grades to teacher training institutions and has positioned itself as a nonpartisan voice on the subject of teacher quality.
But what Dr. Schneider finds presents a different picture.
Read her earlier commentaries on NCTQ, which have been posted daily since January 30.
Mercedes Schneider, a teacher in Louisiana who holds a Ph.D. in statistics and research methods, has been analyzing the board membership of the National Council of Teacher Quality. NCTQ is working with U.S. News & World Report to grade every teacher education program in the nation. Dr. Schneider wanted to see the qualifications of those who are judging the nation’s teacher education programs and making pronouncements on teacher quality. This is the fourth installment of her inquiry.
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