Can ed schools emulate biz schools?
Education schools can learn a lesson from business schools, which used to be a haven for mediocre students and improved dramatically, write Robert Maranto, Gary Ritter and Arthur E. Levine in Education...
View ArticleAccountability for education schools
How well are ed schools preparing tomorrow’s teachers? The National Center on Teacher Quality will evaluate the quality of the nation’s 1,400 education schools. . . . very little is known about the...
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Teaching teachers: How colleges are doing
How well are teachers’ colleges teaching our teachers? Most first-year teachers were satisfied with their training, concludes Public Agenda’s Lessons Learned survey. Overall 8 in 10 felt they were...
View ArticleStudent teaching done wrong — and right
Student teachers don’t work with excellent classroom instructors in many cases, concludes a report by the National Council on Teacher Quality, which analyzed and rated 134 colleges and universities....
View ArticleBest ed schools make a difference
Students’ progress can be linked to where their teachers trained, concludes a study of Washington state education schools Dan Goldhaber of the University of Washington Center for Education Data &...
View ArticleEd schools don’t ‘train’ teachers
Ed schools don’t train teachers, writes Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, in Education Next. “Training” is taboo. Instead, teacher educators believe it’s their job to...
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Ed major is easy, students tweet
Education schools aren’t trying to draw high achievers to teaching, complains the National Council on Teacher Quality’s PDQ blog. Admissions requirements are low and assignments are undemanding. (See...
View ArticleWhat is good teaching?
What Is Good Teaching? asks New York Times columnist Joe Nocera. The New Public shows how hard it is to teach in an inner-city school, he writes. Teachers College at Columbia plans to use the...
View ArticleGreen: Teaching can be taught
Good teaching can be taught, argues journalist Elizabeth Green, co-founder of Chalkbeat, in Building a Better Teacher. University of Michigan Education School Dean Deborah Loewenberg Ball changed...
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Duncan: Rate teacher ed programs
States will be required to rate teacher training programs on job placement, retention rates and their graduates’ success in raising student achievement, under a new Education Department proposal....
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NCTQ rates ‘best value’ ed schools
Western Governors University, which is all online, City University of New York-Hunter College and City University of New York-Brooklyn College are the nation’s top three “best value” colleges of...
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