Introduction:
MPS Department of Teaching and Learning: Expensive, Intellectual Wasteland
Microcosmically representing the most vexing dilemmas at the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) is the staff at the district’s Department of Teaching and Learning.
This intellectual wasteland costs the district over $2,000,000 in salary, an enormous misuse of funds in a budget that is projected to become ever more challenging as the Minneapolis Public Schools lose an ascending number of students for the next half-decade.
As you read the articles in this edition of Journal of the K-12 Revolution: Essays and Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota, understand that no degree in education is an academically substantive degree, that an Education Specialist degree is obtained to avoid writing a dissertation while rising in the administrative hierarchy, but that this is just as well since any doctorate in education is so meaningless.
The Department of Teaching in Learning is farcical in its existence: This inept staff should be jettisoned as teachers are retrained to become masters of knowledge-intensive curriculum, so that they will as in the case of college and university professors carry curriculum in their brains, with little patience for the pretensions and the ineptitude of Department of Teaching and Learning staff.
This inept staff is culpable for the following dismal results >>>>>
Math
MPS Academic Proficiency Rates for 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019
(as indicated by Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment [MCA] results for spring of the given years)
Math 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
African 22% 23% 21% 18% 18% 18%
American
American 23% 19% 19% 17% 17% 18%
Indian
Hispanic 31% 32% 31% 29% 26% 25%
Asian 48% 50% 50% 47% 50% 47%
White 77% 78% 78% 77% 77% 75%
Free/ 26% 26% 25% 24% 22% 20%
Reduced
All 44% 44% 44% 42% 42% 42%
Reading
Reading 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
African 22% 21% 21% 21% 22% 23%
American
American 21% 20% 21% 23% 24% 25%
Indian
Hispanic 23% 25% 26% 26% 27% 29%
Asian 41% 40% 45% 41% 48% 50%
White 78% 77% 77% 78% 80% 78%
Free/ 23% 23% 23% 25% 25% 25%
Reduced
All 42% 42% 43% 43% 45% 47%
Science
Science 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
African 11% 15% 13% 12% 11% 14%
American
American 14% 16% 13% 17% 14% 17%
Indian
Hispanic 17% 18% 21% 19% 17% 16%
Asian 31% 35% 42% 38% 37% 40%
White 71% 75% 71% 70% 71% 70%
Free/ 14% 15% 17% 16% 15% 14%
Reduced
All 33% 36% 35% 34% 34% 36%
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Keep these abysmal results firmly in view as you read the following articles, detailing the inept staff members responsible for these low student proficiency rates in mathematics, reading, and science in the Minneapolis Public Schools.
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