Thursday, April 29, 2010

Texas Ed School Study Highlights Disparate Preparation - Teacher Beat - Education Week

Texas Ed School Study Highlights Disparate Preparation - Teacher Beat - Education Week

Texas Ed School Study Highlights Disparate Preparation

The National Council on Teacher Quality's big review of 67 Texas education schools is finally out.
In what will no doubt drive headlines in the Lone Star State, the report says that eight large programs that prepare a significant number of teachers are in need of some serious attention. They are Lamar University, Midwestern State University, Our Lady of the Lake University, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Texas Christian University, Texas Tech University, and Texas Woman's University.
Lest you think NCTQ is all about criticism, the council also found four programs it deems worthy of commendation: Dallas Baptist University, Southern Methodist University, the University of Texas -- Pan American, and the University of Texas at Austin.
The council didn't rate all of the schools it studied because it felt it didn't have enough information on some of