Accordingly, with admirable, though misdirected intentions, they very seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see. But their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it. Indeed, their remedies are part of the disease.
Oscar Wilde (1891), The Soul of Man under Socialism
And so: NCTQ releases yet another think tank faux-report that will spur yet more press-release journalism.
In the wake of the Vergara ruling in California, which is one intended consequence of maintaining the distracting drum beat about “bad teachers,” I am convinced that NCTQ is implementing a strategy dramatized in the (regretfully) ignored film In Time: Keep everyone so frantic and thus distracted that no one can confront, as Oscar Wilde so wonderfully states, that NCTQ’s “remedies are part of the disease.”
I cannot and see no need to speak directly to new reports from NCTQ because, as I have stated before:
NCTQ offers no credible agenda or scholarship worthy of reforming teacher education. But this ideological think tank is a disturbing example of all that is wrong with the current education reform movement that has allowed people without experience or expertise as educators to perpetuate an education reform agenda through the weight of money, political influence, and media compliance.
Here, however, I will gather my previous posts on NCTQ as well as the expected responses to come—keeping in mind that we can feel safe even before looking at the report that NCTQ remains a think tank without credibility.
Responses to NCTQ
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NCTQ (Finally) Gets Formally Rated– And It Isn’t Pretty.
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Why NCTQ Is Wrong, NCTE
A Plethora of Recommendations Based on a Paucity of Evidence, Louann Reid
NCTQ’s Gradual Unmasking [UPDATED] (See compiled list of earlier responses to NCTQ at the end.)
UPDATED: NCTQ’s Free Pass in an Era of Press-Release Journalism
Those Nonsense Annual NCTQ Ratings Are Coming on June 17, Mercedes Schneider
Peter Smagorinsky: Response to the new NCTQ Teacher Prep Review
A “Fuller” Look at Education Issues, Ed Fuller
Knowledge Ventriloquism, EduShyster
Bunkum on teacher quality from the corporate reformers, Fred Klonsky
Professor: How NCTQ Restricts My Reading List, Katherine Crawford-Garrett
Reading Professor Responds to NCTQ Blast at Her Post, Katherine Crawford-Garrett
Statement on NCTQ Teacher Prep Review from Sharon P. Robinson, Ed.D., AACTE President and CEO
NCTQ/USNWR Review, AACTE
Resisting the National Council on Teacher Quality’s Propaganda, Jack Hassard
Also from Schneider
- NCTQ Gets Caught in a Data Collecting Lie on May 23, 2014
- On the Serving Platter: The NEA-Teach Plus “Partnership” on February 22, 2014
- The Importance of Common Core for Nationally-pervasive Ed Reform on December 22, 2013
- AACTE Endorses CAEP; Testing Companies Win. on September 7, 2013
- Reformer Love for the Opinion Pages on July 30, 2013
dr. p.l. (paul) thomas 
Paul, you’ve hit it on the head. Thank you, jack
Paul, nicely laid out! That strategy of “In Time” chaos, Naomi Klein calls disaster capitalism or the shock doctrine. I definitely read the NCTQ as a part of Stephen Ball’s Global Ed., Inc, network moving to privatize education in this regard and deeply entwined with Mont Perelin Society spin offs (not sure the overlap between Fordham and American Enterprise or Heritage, but I’m sure they attend the same parties). I think we need to look at the history of successful (to the extent that there have been successes) resistance to these tactics. I’m not even sure that I’d count the Chicago Teacher Union as one, since they are still losing ground to Rahm. My inclination is to think of some grounds to sue the pants off of NCTQ–probably easier after report #1 with the consumer warnings than #2 which just lists us as “insufficient data”. I feel like law suits and damages are things these folk would understand. Given the junk science status of their reports, it’s pointless fighting (much) on the grounds of logic and data quality.