Ed Notes Online: Why is the AFT Giving Credence to a Much Disparaged National Council on Teacher Quality Study?

Ed Notes Online: Why is the AFT Giving Credence to a Much Disparaged National Council on Teacher Quality Study?:

Why is the AFT Giving Credence to a Much Disparaged National Council on Teacher Quality Study?

The goal of NCTQ is to replace university teacher education programs with programs such as Teach for America and similar brief alternative certification programs. NCTQ is funded by union-busting conservatives and neoliberals who see K-12 education as their next business opportunity and are moving to privatize this public resource as fast as they can. 

The methodology of the NCTQ is notoriously flimsy. Our own experience with the organization underscores this charge. After NCTQ’s “experts” came to “examine” our program at Northeastern Illinois University, we discovered they’d gotten our data confused with those of Northern Illinois University... Why is AFT publishing a fluff piece about them? 
.... April Nauman, Ph.D

Why? Because Randi Weingarten is, as usual, triangulating, commonly known in these parts as "straddling the fence" on ed