Latest NCTQ Report Blames Vague Assignments for “Easy A’s” in Ed Schools

Official AACTE Statement
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AACTE Members Leading Efforts to Develop and Rigorously Assess Teacher Candidates

(November 12, 2014, Washington, D.C.) – In its latest effort to cast the nation’s schools of education in a negative light, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) today released a report claiming that vague, “criterion-deficient” assignments in educator preparation programs result in too many high grades among teacher candidates, compared with students in other majors at the same institutions. The report, Training Our Future Teachers: Easy A’s and What’s Behind Them, rests on the same meager evidence—mere document reviews—as NCTQ has used in past reports. One of its underlying tenets, however, is important, if not new: that teacher candidates and their readiness to practice must be developed and assessed fully and accurately, an area that is already the subject of intense focus and innovation led by the educator preparation community.

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