Education Week – Jane E. West
“As education policy continues to center on teacher quality and effectiveness, it is encouraging to see teacher preparation being emphasized. Teacher preparation’s critical role in the education system has been an afterthought for far too long…The federal government is an essential contributor to successfully strengthening our nation’s higher-education-based teacher preparation programs. Yet many of the most substantial reforms underway in the profession today are primarily driven by the field and are not supported by policy makers.”(more)