I don’t know anything about them, but they suck! Reformy thoughts on Ed Schools | School Finance 101

I don’t know anything about them, but they suck! Reformy thoughts on Ed Schools | School Finance 101:

I don’t know anything about them, but they suck! Reformy thoughts on Ed Schools

by schoolfinance101

It all started here, when Ben Riley of NSVF suggested that comments from Finnish Ed Guru Pasi Sahlberg (hero of the anti-reformers) regarding teacher preparation in Finland (and elsewhere) meant that the U.S. really needed to start shutting down teacher preparation programs.

• Benjamin Riley ‏@benjaminjriley 1hDon’t look now, but I think Finnish edu-guru @pasi_sahlberg is quietly hinting we close most US colleges of ed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/05/15/what-if-finlands-great-teachers-taught-in-u-s-schools-not-what-you-think/ …

Ben Riley’s main takeaway from Sahlberg’s post was that the U.S. should have about the same number of ed