Ed Week sponsors another corporate attack on education

EdWeek once again spearheads distortion of our work, giving space to a corporatist approach to educational reform.  

The authors work for an organization with the following mission:

• Teacher Preparation Analytics, a limited liability company founded in 2011, is focused on high-leverage strategies to strengthen teacher and education administrator preparation. The company will draw on unique tools and approaches in working with individual programs or institutions, state university systems, and state or national associations, networks, and consortia to generate several instrumental outcomes that are critical to program improvement:
• Accurate, detailed analysis of the problems that compromise program excellence and the challenges that hinder program improvement
• Identification of measures, data, and methods required for ongoing program self-assessment
• Development of action plans and strategies to address key problems and challenges
• Strategic support -- research, convening, assessment, and capacity building -- for preparation programs individually or in networks dedicated to program improvement
• Research-based reports and white papers that discuss important policy and practice issues in educator preparation and provide reliable information and guidance to inform the decisions of educators and policymakers

TPA's founders are national experts on teacher preparation programs and can provide reliable information and guidance to inform decisions of educators and policymakers. TPA seeks to be an objective and effective resource on teacher preparation.

TPA is an LLC - most likely a for-profit venture.  LLC's allow partners to risk less of their own stake in the performance of the company; they are not personally on the hook if the company goes under. Other advantages include  lawsuit protection, credibility, tax savings, deductible employee benefits, asset protection, anonymity, the ease of raising capital, creating a separate legal entity for personal protection. The arose in the 1990s as a convenient way to attract foreign capital.