Thursday, May 24, 2012

IEA Executive Director Audrey Soglin gets up with fleas. « Fred Klonsky

IEA Executive Director Audrey Soglin gets up with fleas. « Fred Klonsky:


IEA Executive Director Audrey Soglin gets up with fleas.

Tim Furman points me in the direction of Diane Ravitch’s latest blog post on the National Council on Teacher Quality.
This is an organization born from the sperm and egg of the right-wing Fordham Foundation and the Bush Department of Education.
Ravitch’s blog post reads in part:

An hour after this blog was published, a reader told me that NCTQ was cited as one of the organizations that received funding from the Bush administration to get positive media attention for NCLB. I checked his sources, which took me to a 2005 report of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Education (a link in this article leads to the Inspector General report), and he was right. This