From Education Week By Stephen Sawchuk Of all the states that have taken steps to rethink systems for preparing teachers, New York appears to be experimenting with the greatest variety of approaches. Under a series of actions by the state board of regents over the past 1½ years, it has approved the first new graduate […]
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From Inside Higher Ed By Libby A. Nelson WASHINGTON – A Senate bill that would encourage the growth of alternative training programs for teachers and principals, some of which would not be based at colleges or universities but would have the authority to give certificates considered the equivalent of master’s degrees, has come under fire […]
From Education Week By Stephen Sawchuk slew of organizations representing colleges and universities have lined up to oppose a recently introduced federal teacher- and principal-training bill, urging the the chairman and ranking Republican on the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee not to support the proposal. The bill, introduced in late June, would authorize […]
Official AACTE Statement For interviews, contact: Lisa Johnson202-478-4502 or ljohnson@aacte.org Report Paints Inaccurate View of Current Educator Preparation Environment (July 21, 2011, Washington, D.C.) – The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) today released a report reviewing “student teaching programs” from 134 higher education institutions across the U.S. As the national organization representing higher-education-based educator […]
From The New York TimesBy Tamar Lewin The National Council on Teacher Quality, an advocacy group, is to issue a study on Thursday reporting that most student-teaching programs are seriously flawed. The group has already angered the nation’s schools for teachers with its plans to give them letter grades that would appear in U.S. News […]
From Inside Higher EdBy Allie Grasgreen A sure-to-be-controversial new study from the National Council on Teacher Quality – the same group that developed the heavily criticized methodology U.S. News & World Report will use for its new teacher education program rankings – determined that fully three-fourths of student teaching programs, including ones at top education […]
Emphasis on Reforming and Supporting Preparation of America’s Future Educators (June 22, 2011, Washington, D.C.) – Nearly 90 percent of new teachers are prepared in institutions of higher education (IHEs). Thus, assuring that colleges’ and universities’ preparation programs are effective and accountable is vital to producing teachers who will enter the nation’s PK-12 classrooms equipped […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFor interviews, contact: Lisa Johnson202-478-4502 or ljohnson@aacte.org Top-Notch Panel Headlines Association’s Annual Day on the Hill Activities (June 20, 2011, Washington, D.C.) – On June 22, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) will host a briefing on Capitol Hill to showcase outstanding examples of improvement in educator preparation and discuss […]
From Education Dailyby Wangui Njuguna Tests would evaluate teachers’ instructional delivery, modification Efforts toward ensuring that teachers enter the classroom with the ability to deliver instruction will be furthered by the Teacher Performance Assessment, said Raymond Pecheone, executive director of the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity. Pecheone and center founder Linda Darling-Hammond are […]
From Education Week Comprehensive literacy learning across ages, grades, and subject areas is absolutely necessary for improving student learning outcomes and assuring school success. Because literacy begins at birth, support for development of young children and for early-childhood education is an essential part of a comprehensive approach to literacy. Alignment across grades K-12 and across […]
