NCTQ, U.S. News Announce Joint Teacher Education Review
The Washington-based National Council on Teacher Quality and U.S. News and World Report, the publisher of the famous and much-debated college ratings, announced today that they are embarking on an ambitious project to review—and rate—teacher education offerings in all the nation's 1,400 schools of education.
Each school will be reviewed against 19 standards and graded on 17 of them. These standards have been revised and reduced in number since NCTQ did its review of Illinois and Texas education schools, essentially a "field test" for this larger project.
Alternative routes housed at institutions of higher education will be included in the review, but it won't include Teach For America or district-created programs that operate independently of ed. schools.
The groups are sending out letters to deans at all the schools seeking their participation in the review process.
