EDUCATING SCHOOL TEACHERS

EDUCATING SCHOOL

TEACHERS

BY ARTHUR LEVINE

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EDUCATING SCHOOL TEACHERS

BY ARTHUR LEVINE

The Education Schools Project

Copyright September 2006 all rights reserved

No part of this report may be reproduced in any form--except for brief quotation (not to exceed 1,000 words) in a review or professional work--without permission in writing from the author.

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TABLE of CONTENTS

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Part I: Teacher Education in Flux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Part II: The Pursuit of Irrelevance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Part III: Inadequate Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Part IV: A Curriculum in Disarray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Part V: A Disconnected Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Part VI: Low Admission Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Part VII: Insufficient Quality Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Part VIII: Disparities in Institutional Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Part IX: Exemplary Teacher Education Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Part X: Educating the Teachers America Needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Appendix 1: Data Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Appendix 2: Northwest Evaluation Association Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Appendix 3: A Description of the Nation's Education Schools by Carnegie Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Appendix 4: A Description of Five Non-University Teacher Education Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Appendix 5: Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

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