Article #5 >>>>> Those Most Responsible for Abysmal Student Academic Proficiency Rates at the Minneapolis Public Schools >>>>> Associate Superintendents

The Minneapolis Public Schools constitute a salient public school district in which incompetence at the lower levels induces a layering of even greater incompetence at putatively higher levels in the district bureaucracy:

 

>>>>>   Teacher training in colleges, schools, and departments of education is abominable, so teachers  at the median are mediocre;  many are incompetent.

 

>>>>>   Principals typically train first as teachers and then receive masters and sometimes doctoral degrees in those same wretched colleges, schools, and departments of education;  they officially have responsibility for teacher and programmatic academic quality at school sites---  but they are at least as inept at delivering quality education as are teachers.

 

>>>>>   Because neither principals or teachers are effective in implementing a high-quality academic program, the position of associate superintendent is created for the mentorship of principals;  but these associate superintendent have the same disastrous training as do principals and teachers, so they, too, are incapable of implementing high-quality curriculum or improving principal and teacher quality.

 

At no level in the educational bureaucracy of the Minneapolis Public Schools is one likely to find anyone who has graduate degrees in an academically relevant discipline:  Overwhelmingly, degrees are received in the same terrible programs of colleges, schools, and departments of education, so that no teacher or administrator has any advanced training in a key subject area (mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, history, government, or literature).

 

Consider the training of those at the associate superintendent layer of the Minneapolis Public Schools bureaucracy, understanding that these officials are among those responsible for abysmal student academic proficiency in the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

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Shawn Harris-Berry (Associate Superintendent)

 

Academic Degree/Credential

 

Bachelor’s Degree, Business Education                    

(University of Wisconsin/Eau Claire WI, 1985)

 

M. Ed., Secondary School Administration                        

(University of St. Thomas, 1995)

           

Ed.D., Educational Leadership              

St. Mary’s University, 2005)                    

 

Other Credentials

 

Teaching License

Administrative License – District Superintendent

Administrative License – K-12 Principal

Administrative License – Secondary School Principal

 

 

Yusuf Abdullah (Associate Superintendent)

 

Academic Degree/Credential

 

Superintendent License/Educational Leadership (General)

(St. Cloud State University, January 2022-August 2022)

 

Educational Administrator License

(St. Cloud State University, 2008-2010)

 

M.Ed. Urban Education and Leadership

(University of Minnesota/Duluth, 1999-2006)

 

Bachelor of Applied Science, Health and Physical Education

(University of Minnesota/Duluth, 1994-1999)

 

 

Lametria Eaddy (Associate Superintendent)

 

Academic Degree/Credential

 

Ph. D., Educational Leadership & Administration, General

(Western Michigan University, 2019)

 

M.A. Curriculum & Instruction

(Saginaw Valley State University, 2006-2009)

 

B.A., English

(Howard University, 1993-1996)

 

 

Liz Keenan (Associate Superintendent)

 

Academic Degree/Credential

 

Ph. D., Educational Leadership, General

(Marian University of Fond du Lac, August 2006-May 2013)

 

M.Ed., Special Education Director

(St. Cloud State University, September 1997-2000)