NCTQ Teacher Education Study 'An Outrage,' AACTE Says
In a recent letter to its members, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education left no doubt of its opposition to an effort by the National Council on Teacher Quality and U.S. News and World Report to review and rank all 1,400 schools of education.
AACTE has never been particularly enamored of this project, but as of this letter, dated Oct. 12, it's clearly signaling members not to participate, asserting that the project "is so fundamentally flawed, it is not worthy of your engagement."
That's only one of the zingers in the communique, which also calls the review an "outrage," a "cause for alarm," and NCTQ's tactics "unprofessional."
The letter goes on to outline several new objections to NCTQ's methods, including the fact that NCTQ is having students collect and submit documents when institutions won't voluntarily participate. It notes that these