The post that follows is a re-blog from Mercedes Schneider's blog. It documents yet another step in the corportization of U.S. Education--this one is directed at teacher preparation. Many education deans have signed up and joined a group called the Deans for Impact....
Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig, author of the blog, Cloaking Inequity, provides an important look into the nature of Teach for America, and why it is not the way teachers for our schools should be prepared, or hired. He writes: After several decades, Teach For...
The Devil is in the Detail This inquiry is an investigation into the behavior of two organizations that claim to have the inside track on understanding how teachers should be educated: The National Council on Teacher Quality, and it's partner and founding...
According to the NCTQ, teacher preparation in the U.S. is failing, and again according to them, there is a significant data gap on what's working. Their stated goal is to fill this gap by providing those who want to be teachers to become "strategic" consumers by...
The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has published in recent review of teacher preparation. The NCTQ is well-financed (Gates, Walton, Broad, New Ventures Fund, and many more), and the Fordham Foundation's creation. Together, their goal is destroy teacher...
The NCTQ Review of Teacher Prep in the University System of Georgia is Feeble & Incompetent. In this post I'm going to explain why I conclude that the NCTQ Review of Teacher Prep of the University System of Georgia colleges and universities that offer teacher...
