Thursday, September 28, 2006

What Are Teachers Learning?

A four-year study concludes that "The nation's teacher education programs are inadequately preparing their graduates to meet the realities of today's standards-based, accountability-driven classrooms, in which the primary measure of success is student achievement." According to researcher, Arthur Levine, former president of Teachers College at Columbia University, "Teacher education right now is the Dodge City of education: unruly and chaotic."

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