It's Bad Enough When Know-Nothing Billionaires Pontificate About Public Education,

but it is even worse, if that is possible, for a Secretary of Education, who has NEVER taught a goddamned day in his life and has a useless sociology degree from Hahvahd, to dictate to states which teacher preparation programs are "effective." Worse yet, he wants standardized test scores, which measure NOTHING at all about how well a teacher teaches, to be used to evaluate colleges of education.

At the same time, this dickhead promotes Teach for America, an organization that puts unqualified people with only five weeks training into low-income schools, which in turn violates civil rights laws embracing the concept of equality of educational opportunities. These students, more than any others, NEED fully certified, EXPERIENCED teachers, not a bunch of know-it-all Ivy League bimbos. Low-income schools are by and large populated by hispanics, blacks, and other minorities. TFA and similar temp teacher outfits should be outlawed for violating students' educational rights.

Eli Broad has a phony "academy" for superintendents or would-be superintendents who apparently can skirt certification laws and become "superintendents" with just a few weekends of training. Granted, many of the "graduates" are qualified on paper and fully certified in their states, but the results are still shitty.

Idiot Arne thinks the problem in education is with teachers when in reality it is with administrators like him who haven't a fucking clue but use their jobs as a way to line their corrupt pockets.

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