Note to My Readers on the Importance of the Following Three Articles Concerning Teacher Quality and Curriculum

Note to My Readers on the Importance of the Following Three Articles Concerning Teacher Quality and Curriculum 


As members of the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education put excess time and energy into the continued search for a new superintendent, they allow themselves---  whether purposely or unconsciously---  to avoid the real issues that vex all locally centralized school districts in the United States, including the Minneapolis Public Schools.


I have detailed in previous articles the real and abiding problems in the classrooms of the Minneapolis Public Schools, those related to classroom management and the unrewarding learning experiences that our students have in the context of inadequate curriculum and mediocre teachers.


The following three articles are therefore the most important that you will ever read with regard to the core problems that yield such a poor quality of education for our precious young people.


The first two articles as you scroll down will appear in the order of most recent posting and concern the systems that gives us undertrained and mediocre teachers;  the third article as you scroll down, posted before the other two, explains the origins of our errant approach to curriculum.


Please read these articles especially carefully and reread them from time to time to avoid the constant distractions that keep us from focusing on the issues of true importance in the overhaul of K-12 education.