Commonwealth Education Organization
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| *January 25, 2012 SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION "Larry Sand's article 'No Wonder Johnny (Still) Can't Read'...blames schools of education for the decline in America's education. Education professors drum into students that they should not 'drill and kill' or be the 'sage on the stage' but instead be the 'guide on the side' who 'facilitates student discovery.' This kind of harebrained thinking, coupled with multicultural nonsense, explains today's education." >>read more>> |
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REPORT CARD ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHER TRAINING (TN)
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| BUILDING BETTER TEACHERS "With the right training, talented and motivated people can be made into great teachers. But our teacher preparation programs must be up to the task. That's why NCTQ (National Council on Teacher Quality) has embarked on a review of the nation's 1,400 higher ed teacher preparation programs...NCTQ's National Review of Teacher Prep is slated for release in fall 2012. NCTQ will publish reviews of teacher prep annually." >>read more>> NCTQ's standards for rating teacher prep |
| October 15, 2011 STUDENT PROGRESS CAN BE TIED TO TEACHER’S SCHOOL “(This is) hopeful because it leads researchers to the next step in their work: to take a closer look at the changes in teacher training over time in order to determine whether they are actually improving teacher effectiveness.” >>read more>> |
| October 1, 2011 A PUSH TO IMPROVE TEACHERS COLLEGES "The Obama administration announced a new $185 million competition Friday that would reward colleges for producing teachers whose students perform well on standardized tests. The competition would require states to provide data linking collegiate teaching programs inside their borders to the test scores of their graduates' students. Under the proposal, to be eligible for the money, states would have to ratchet up teacher-licensing exams and close persistently low-performing teacher-training programs." >>read more>> |
| August 7, 2011 GRADE INFLATION FOR EDUCATION MAJORS AND LOW STANDARDS FOR TEACHERS “Students who take education classes at universities receive significantly higher grades than students who take classes in every other academic discipline…(the) reasonable explanation is that the higher grades in education classes are the result of low grading standards. These low grading standards likely will negatively affect the accumulation of skills for prospective teachers during university training. More generally, they contribute to a larger culture of low standards for educators.” >>read more>> |
| July 21, 2011 STUDENT-TEACHING FOUND TO SUFFER FROM POOR SUPERVISION “The student-teaching experience offered by many traditional schools of education couples poor supervision with a lack of rigorous selection of effective mentor-teachers…” >>read more>> |
| July 24, 2011 ED SCHOOL’S PEDAGOGICAL PUZZLE “Experts hope that out of this sea of experimentation comes a consensus on what teacher training should look like. In some programs, it takes a semester to train a teacher, in others five years. Some require a year of mentored student teaching, others almost no teaching at all.” >>read more>> |
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| *July 14, 2008 EDUCATION SCHOOLS ARE FAILING TO PREPARE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS IN MATH "The recent study...found that state and individual school requirement combine to result in 'very few teacher candidates taking a sufficient number of courses that prepare them well for teaching in elementary classrooms'.” >>read more>> |
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Commonwealth Education Organization . 3830 Saxonburg Blvd. Cheswick , Pa. 15024 . (412) 967-9691
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