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Considering the Future of University‐Based Teacher Preparation. Princeton, NJ: The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.  \n© 2014 The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Developed with the generous support of the Annenberg Foundation, which bears no responsibility for the content.  \nNote: The following report seeks to place the accomplishments of the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship programs in the context of the ongoing national debate about the future of teacher education, especially the contested future of teacher education programs offered by universities. While no program or university has come close to solving the many problems facing teacher education, the universities working with the suite of Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships have all used these programs to develop new initiatives and promising practices. Their efforts are worthy of further study and some of their innovations may well point the way to new developments that will make the teacher preparation of the next decade more effective than it has been in the recent past.  \nOn October 20, 2013, New York Times columnist Bill Keller published a piece with the title,“An Industry of Mediocrity.” Keller was quick to note that he had borrowed his title from the recent report on university teacher education programs by the National Council on Teacher Quality. The Keller article and the NCTQ report are only the latest in a long chain of articles, reports, and commentaries to make the same point: In the opinion of many Americans—educators, policy leaders, and average citizens—teacher education in the United States is not just in a state of crisis; it is a disaster. Worse, it is a disaster that is responsible for many other national problems, from American students’poor rankings on international tests to declining American competitiveness in the international economic arena.  \nSchools of Education Are In Trouble  \nSeveral years ago, when I was dean of the School of Education at Northeastern University, Adam Urbanski, president of the Rochester New York Teachers Association, and I were on a number of panels together. We developed a common introduction: “Good morning…We are an ed school dean and a teacher union president—and we are the two most unpopular people in education today.” It always got a good laugh. Ed schools and teacher unions are the whipping boys for much of what is considered education reform in this country. But—Urbanski and I would also confess—both institutions have often earned their bad standing and both are in need of reform if their important contribution to American education is to be enhanced.  \nAs those of us who are historians know, the critique of education schools is not new. In 1953 Arthur Bestor published Educational Wastelands: The Retreat from Learning in Our Public Schools. And—surprise—he blamed education schools for becoming detached from the academy, turning into mere vocational training enterprises. At a time when many specialized teacher preparation institutions—the former normal schools—were dropping their association with teaching and becoming regional campuses of comprehensive universities, Bestor summarized curricular change at the schools of education of the 1950s thus:  \nInstead of a new and genuinely professional approach to education, there was a mere upgrading in the numbering of the old courses in pedagogical method. For most students  \nthese courses were apt to be piled, layers thick, upon an undergraduate major in pedagogy, not upon a major in one of the liberal arts. In the end, so‐called graduate work in education tended to become merely a prolonged and attenuated program of vocational training.  \nA decade later, other critics—James D. Koerner and former Harvard president James Bryant Conant among them—said essentially the same thing. And in every decade since, some version of this criticism has emerged: The curriculum of education schools has too many met","cbCaiavaAR0MvMyu","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiavaAR0MvMyu","pdf",342357,13,"English","# Schools of Education Are In Trouble\n## Continuing critique and historical background\n## Contemporary drivers of reform: regulation and rankings\n## Growth of alternative teacher education providers","[{\"question\":\"What is the report’s main purpose regarding Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship programs?\",\"answer\":\"To place the programs’ accomplishments in the context of the ongoing national debate about the future of university-based teacher education and contested programs offered by universities.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the report claim teacher education in the U.S. is viewed negatively?\",\"answer\":\"It describes broad public and policy criticism that teacher education is in crisis and a disaster, linked to issues such as poor international student rankings and declining competitiveness.\"},{\"question\":\"What criticisms of education schools does the report trace back to earlier decades?\",\"answer\":\"It recounts historical critiques that education schools became detached from the academy and shifted toward vocational-style training, with too many methods courses and too little rigorous study of core arts and sciences and too little field experience.\"}]","Considering the Future of University-Based Teacher Preparation | PDF",1792050948,33]