Following the online publication of his article on the trouble with teacher training programs (which, among other things, reveals the hidden, biased agenda behind the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)), George Leef was surprised to find the article footnoted in a First Amendment Complaint filed in California. The plaintiff uses George’s article as evidence that presence of ideological and moral biases of the NCATE were present in the media as early as 2001. Higher Education, no matter what specific field, relies to some extent on the misleading statistic that those who graduate with a higher degree earn more money. Not contending the statistics behind the remark, George takes on the inherent cause-and-effect relationship behind the numbers on the National Association of Scholars’ Online Forum. And in some cases, a degree doesn’t prove that you’ve been educated in a designated field. It may just show that you’ve endured a “romanticized” version of instruction, a point made by Lindalyn Kakadelis in the most recent magazine of SEEN (SouthEastern Education Network).
