Article #26 of a Multi-Article Series >>>>> Origins and Maintenance of a Corrupt System of Public Education in the United States

Minnesota Department of Education Commissioner Heather Mueller is An Academic Lightweight Typical of the Education Establishment

 

In the same way that United States Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has not a single degree in a major academic discipline--  and the same holds for Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent Ed Graff;  Interim Senior Academic Officer Aimee Fearing;  Associate Superintendents Shawn Harris-Berry, LaShawn Ray, Ron Wagner, and Brian Zambreno;  the entire 26-member Department of Teaching and Learning---   Minnesota Department of Education Commissioner Heather Mueller has no  credentials worthy of an academician.

 

Mueller’s degrees and credentials are as follows

 

Associate of Arts, General Studies

(Arizona Western College)

 

B. Ed., Secondary Education and Teaching

(Minnesota State University, Mankato)

 

M. Ed., Educational Leadership

(Minnesota State University, Mankato)

 

Specialist’s Degree, Educational Leadership and Administration, General

(Minnesota State University, Mankato)

 

Ed. D., Education Leadership, with an Emphasis on Organizational Analysis and Change

(Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota)

 

These are academically vacuous degrees. 

 

Like all education establishment figures, Mueller has no serious scholarly interests:  She has no expertise in mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, literature, history, government, economics, or the fine arts.

 

Thus, as is the case for Cardona, academic decision-makers at the Minneapolis Pubic Schools, and all members of the education establishment, Minnesota Education Commissioner Heather Mueller is an intellectual lightweight who is not positioned to envision and implement the needed overhaul for knowledge-intensive curriculum and the training of teachers capable of imparting that curriculum.