Join us via webcast today for our teacher prep event
If you can’t be here in person with us at the Capital Hilton for U.S. Secretary Arne Duncan’s plan for teacher education reform and improvement, you’re in luck:
You can watch via live webcast here.
You can follow us on Twitter @EducationSector or #teacherprep.
And you can check in for updates here on the blog.
Duncan will release his plan at 9 a.m. Afterward, National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel and Teach For America Founder and CEO Wendy Kopp will share their thoughts. And finally, our distinguished panel will share their insights. You can submit questions for the panel via Twitter @EducationSector.
Stay tuned!
Panel discussion starting now; submit your questions via Twitter
Our panel will begin discussion now. Panelists include George Noell, executive director of strategic research and analysis at the Louisiana Department of Education; Deborah Loewenberg Ball, dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan; Sharon Robinson, president and chief executive officer of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education; Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality; and Elena Silva, senior policy analyst at Education Sector.
The panel will be moderated by Education Sector’s Executive Director Richard Lee Colvin.
Watch live here and submit your own questions via Twitter @EducationSector.
We’ll also post updates here on the blog.
TFA’s Kopp supports Duncan’s plan
Teach For America Founder and CEO Wendy Kopp said she supports U.S. Secretary Arne Duncan’s proposal for teacher preparation reform and improvement.
NEA’s Van Roekel responds to Duncan’s plan
National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel said government’s plan for teacher education reform “is a nice change of tone, to talk about building the profession, instead of tearing it down. There’s too much talk of blame, of firing teachers.”
Roekel spoke to a packed room at the Capital Hilton, following U.S. Secretary of Education Arne
Sec. Duncan releases plan for teacher prep reform
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s plan for teacher education reform and improvement calls for urgency, accountability, and restoring quality to the profession nationwide.
“Teacher preparation programs are operated largely in dark,” Duncan told a packed room of education reformers at the Capital Hilton in Washington this morning. “A good feedback loop and a good accountability system … would scale them up, help them grow.
“Under our plan, teacher preparation programs would be held to clear standard of quality,” he said.
The plan, titled “Our Future, Our Teachers: The Obama Administration’s Plan for Teacher Education Reform and