Katherine’s Kersten Teacher License Article Is Perfectly Inaccurate
This article is in a response to a Tweet that appeared on my feed and connected to education. What I will unpack here for you is that the article is extremely misleading and inaccurate in mischaracterizing the teacher licensing reality in 2023.
The original article appears in the Star Tribune and can found by clicking in the title below. The article is purely political and lacks a variety of opinions to inform the public.
Katherine Kersten: Teacher licensure gets squishy in Minnesota
In her opinion exchange piece, she has stated two contradictory statements. Yes, she is correct to say schools are in crisis, but that’s not just in Minnesota but across the United States. Second, when she added the following paragraph below she mischaracterized and misrepresented the current problem with public education.
“Only 44.6% of our students can do grade-level math, and just under half can’t read at grade level. These results add to a long-term trend of mediocre academic performance and stagnant and…
