Re: Fw: FW: NCTQ Invites You To....

[Peter Campbell <campbellp@mail.montclair.edu>]

Did a little digging.

The Advisory Board for the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)  
includes the following:

- Michael Feinberg, co-founder of KIPP schools, the infamous  
MacSchool charter franchise that trains poor inner-city black  
children to "Work Hard, Be Nice"

- Frederick M. Hess, American Enterprise Institute, author of "Tear  
Down This Wall: The Case For a Radical Overhaul of Teacher  
Certification," Progressive Policy Institute, (2001)

- Paul T. Hill, Center for Reinventing Public Education - his recent  
work on public elementary and secondary education reform has focused  
on school choice plans, school accountability, and charter schools.  
He is the lead author (with Lawrence Pierce and James Guthrie) of  
Reinventing Public Education: How Contracting Can Transform America's  
Schools, University of Chicago Press 1997. This book concludes that  
public schools should be operated by independent organizations under  
contract with public school boards.

- E.D. Hirsch - the English professor at the University of Virginia  
whose wacky Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know  
helps prepare children to excel at Jeopardy

- Frank Keating, former Republican Governor of Oklahoma; strong  
supporter of charter schools and "school choice"

- Wendy Kopp, Teach For America founder; TFA circumvents teacher prep  
programs altogether

- Deborah M. McGriff, Chief Communications Officer, Edison Schools,  
Inc., and President of the Education Industry Association, Inc. -  
"Early entrepreneurs . . . turned to each other for peer support,  
networking, professional development and advocacy and formed the  
Association of Educators in Private Practice (AEPP) in 1990. In 2002,  
the organization was renamed the Education Industry Association (EIA)  
to reflect the breadth of enterprises engaged in market-based  
education services. Today, the EIA, with over 800 corporate and  
individual members, is the leading professional association for  
private providers of education services, suppliers and other private  
organizations who are stakeholders in education. EIA is a broad-based  
organization that represents the collective strengths and  
contributions of the multi-faceted education industry, an  
organization that projects a reasoned and positive voice for  
innovators in the supply of academic services." (http:// 
www.educationindustry.org/about/overview.php)

- Stefanie Sanford, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Kim Smith, NewSchools Venture Fund - "We raise early-stage capital  
from a variety of institutional and individual donors and invest it  
in the most promising education entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs  
are developing solutions that build effective, alternative systems of  
schools . . . We then support these entrepreneurs through board  
oversight and active management assistance in key areas such as  
strategic planning, growth planning and scaling, business planning  
and financial modeling, team building, fundraising, and strategic  
partnering." (http://www.newschools.org/strategy/index.htm)

Lewis C. Solmon, The Milken Family Foundation