Dr. Marzano calls himself an education expert. His specialities include competency-based education and teacher observation.
Dr. Marzano, who has long been in the education reform business, recently acquired the Reinventing Schools Coalition.
According to the recently revamped Reinventing Schools website (they dropped the “Coalition” because “RISC” sounded too risky), their “story begins in the early 1990s in a rural Alaskan school district comprised of a native population as well as other groups.”
All sorts of miracles happened, “news about the dramatic success in a small Alaskan town traveled far and fast and Chugach received the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 2001.”
Now read here to learn what really happened in Alaska. (Hint: The Gates Foundation, who funded the start-up of the Reinventing Schools Coalition, was part of the project the whole time, and the award was planned.)