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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Disputed Review Finds Disparities in Teacher Prep

Education scholars are critiquing their standards and methodology of this report--akin to "restaurant reviews," as one professor says. More of the same pattern of demonization of higher education, targeting colleges of education.
-Angela


Disputed Review Finds Disparities in Teacher Prep

Only a small number of teacher education programs nationally are designed so that new teachers are adequately prepared, concludes a long-awaited and deeply contested independent review.
Released today by the Washington-based National Council on Teacher Quality and U.S. News and World Report, the project grades programs on up to 18 standards on a scale of zero to four stars. Just four programs, all in secondary teacher preparation, earned a four-star overall rating—Furman University, in South Carolina; Lipscomb and Vanderbilt universities, in Tennessee; and Ohio State University. Earning at least three stars were 104 programs.
About 160 programs were deemed so weak that they were put on a “consumer alert” list by the council.

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