Friday, September 22, 2006
No Teacher Left Behind
A Report by "The Education Schools Project" on how well our teachers are being prepared by their shools of education.
"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."
See also:
WSJ article - A new report shows educators to be woefully unqualified.
"When school principals were asked to rate the skills and preparedness of new teachers, only 40% on average thought education schools were doing even a moderately good job."
"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."
See also:
WSJ article - A new report shows educators to be woefully unqualified.
"When school principals were asked to rate the skills and preparedness of new teachers, only 40% on average thought education schools were doing even a moderately good job."
