Over the past five years, we have followed the NCTQ since they first appeared in Seattle during our Broad superintendent’s reign when she had a report “created”, paid for by Bill Gates and Eli Broad, on those lazy, worthless teachers and how they need merit pay waved in front of them to get our students into shape. The report came out just before the Seattle teachers’ union, the Seattle Education Association, was to negotiate their contract.
By the way, their report, specifically tailored for Seattle, looks surprisingly like reports done for other districts around the country. Hmm.
First is a post I wrote about the NCTQ dog and pony show when they came to Seattle:
The Alliance for Education and the NCTQ study
Then Sue, I and others pieced together the puzzle of what was happening in Seattle and beyond which included the activity of NCTQ. That information was provided in a post titled:
The Lines of Influence in Education Reform
Then a parent sent me a well-researched piece on the NCTQ which we published in 2011 titled:
In 2011 another NCTQ was trotted out picking on Colleges of Education:
Kate Walsh, the NCTQ and US News and World Report
And then in 2012, NCTQ popped up again as described in the post:
A look at KIPP, Michael Feinberg, NCTQ and Bill Gates
The NCTQ is preparing a report now, just before the Seattle Education Association’s contract is to once again be negotiated. It will be interesting to see what they are saying this time or will it be the same report provided in 2010 with some minor revisions?
Submitted by Dora Taylor
Post Script:
To follow are links to additional articles:
- Colleges Respond to Report on Teacher Education Programs
- Dr. Lawrence Barnes: The Teachers We Need Vs. the Teachers We Have
- Early childhood programs dispute low ratings on teacher prep
- Group’s report poorly done, lacking in data
- http://W&MJoinsUniversitiesNationallytoOpposeaNCTQStudy
- Illinois Educator Preparation Groups Respond to New Ratings Report
- Misinformed on Teachers’ Ed
- NCTQ Teacher Education Study an ‘Outrage,’ AACTE Says
- NCTQ’s LAUSD report’s highly questionable veracity shows Bill Gates’ pervasiveness and perniciousness
- Payola Policy: NCTQ Prepares its Hit on Schools of Education
- Roosevelt University’s Response to Teacher Education Program Study
- School of Education opting out of NCTQ and U.S. News and World Report study because of methodological concerns
- States’ Ed. Schools Backing Out of NCTQ Review
- The NCTQ report is designed to embarrass, not to help
- U.S. News Getting It Wrong: Assess Teacher Programs Sensibly
- What is NCTQ
