Measuring What Matters A Stronger Accountability Model for
Teacher Education SOURCE: AP/Carlos Osorio Download the full
report (pdf) Our current system for holding U.S. teacher
education programs accountable doesn’t guarantee program quality
or serve the needs of schools and students. State oversight for
teacher preparation programs mostly ignores the impact of
graduates on the K-12 students they teach, and it gives little
attention to where graduates teach or how long they remain in
the profession. There is no evidence that current state policies
hold programs to high standards in order to produce teachers who
can help students achieve. Moreover, every state does its own
thing when it comes to program oversight—another barrier to
effective quality control. New ways of preparing teachers have
been created in the last few decades in large part because they
offer solutions to serious problems that many university-based
teacher preparation programs appear unwilling to address.
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