Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence
November 2004
Kentucky's well-regarded Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence prepared this short (22-page) report for the ill-regarded National Commission on Teaching and America's Future. (The report misnames NCTAF, replacing "and" with "for.") The short version: Kentucky thinks it's making progress on a variety of teaching fronts but has a distance yet to go on all the paths favored by NCTAF. Which means Kentucky is moving ever-deeper into the clutches of the cartel, with its teacher "standards" aligned with the daffy curricular notions of the NCTM and IRA, its preparation programs under the thumb of NCATE, its definition of "professionalism" written by NBPTS, and its so-called "alternative certification" programs squarely in the hands of the ed schools. Pity. If you want to read this litany of folly for yourself, you can find it here.
