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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Is This Any Way to Improve the Teaching Profession? « Diane Ravitch's blog

Is This Any Way to Improve the Teaching Profession? « Diane Ravitch's blog:


Is This Any Way to Improve the Teaching Profession?

This is President Obama’s vision for reshaping the teaching profession. I certainly agree with the idea that entry into teacher education programs should be selective and rigorous, but almost everything else about the program is odious.
The administration proposes a competitive grant program that would do the following [my comments are in brackets]:
The proposed grant program calls for states and districts to undertake a comprehensive set of five reforms including:
  • Reforming colleges of education and making these schools more selective  [good idea, but today the