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
projected to become ever more challenging as the Minneapolis Public Schools
lose an ascending number of students for the next half-decade.
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
African
American
2014
2015 2016
2017
2018 2019
22%
23%
21%
18%
18% 18%
American
Indian
23%
19% 19%
17%
17% 18%
Hispanic
31%
32% 31%
29%
26% 25%
Asian
48%
50% 50%
47%
50% 47%
White
77%
78% 78%
77%
77% 75%
Free/ Reduced
26%
26% 25%
24%
22% 20%
All
44%
44%
44% 42%
42% 42%
Reading
2014
2015 2016
2017 2018 2019
African American
22%
21%
21% 21%
22% 23%
American
Indian
21%
20% 21%
23%
24% 25%
Hispanic
23%
25% 26%
26%
27% 29%
Asian
41%
40% 45%
41%
48% 50%
White
78%
77% 77%
78%
80% 78%
Free/
Reduced
23%
23% 23%
25%
25% 25%
All
42%
42%
43% 43%
45% 47%
Science
2014
2015 2016
2017
2018 2019
African American
11%
15%
13%
12%
11% 14%
American Indian
14%
16% 13%
17%
14% 17%
Hispanic
17%
18% 21%
19%
17% 16%
Asian
31%
35% 42%
38%
37% 40%
White
71%
75% 71%
70%
71% 70%
Free/ Reduced
14%
15% 17%
16%
15% 14%
All
33%
36%
35% 34%
34% 36%
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Keep these abysmal results firmly in
view as you read the articles to come, detailing the inept staff members
responsible for these low student proficiency proficiency rates in mathematics,
reading, and science in the Minneapois Public Schools.
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