Report on Teacher Education Programs

The Institute for Education and the Arts is posting information about the release of a report on university-based teacher education.

Teacher Education Out of Step with Realities of Classrooms: Educating School Teachers Report
From the Education Schools Project, September 19, 2006

The release of Educating School Teachers, a provocative analysis of the quality of university-based teacher education in the United States, prepared by Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and former president of Teachers College, Columbia University. While recognizing model programs nationwide, the report will say that the vast majority of the nation's teachers are prepared in programs that have low admission and graduation standards and cling to an outdated vision of teacher education.

Learn more at http://www.edschools.org.

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