NCTQ
National Reports on Teacher Preparation Reform
Center for American Progress - Measuring What Matters (2010)
"... States have done little to focus traditional preparation programs on issues like selective recruitment through high standards for entry into programs, carefully constructed and monitored clinical experiences for teacher candidates, and program evaluation focused on important outcomes."
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Arthur Levine - Educating School Teachers (2006)
"The simple fact is that education schools have strengths that go unrecognized by their detractors and they have weaknesses that they are unwilling to acknowledge."
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U.S. Department of Education - Meeting the Highly Qualified Teachers Challenge (2002)
"Few adults are as important in the lives of children as teachers are. Ensuring that all students have access to highly qualified teachers is of paramount importance, especially for disadvantaged children. Fulfilling the promise of leaving no child behind rests on our ability to staff our schools with the best teachers our nation can produce."
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American Council on Education - To Touch the Future (1999)
"During the next 10 years, some 2.5 million new teachers will be employed to replace retiring teachers, meet growing school enrollments, lower class size, and replace teachers who have left. The opportunity to transform schools by improving the quality of new teachers has never been as great."
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Linda Darling-Hammond - Teacher Quality and Student Achievement (1999)
"This analysis suggests that policies adopted by states regarding teacher education, licensing, hiring, and professional development may make an important difference in the qualifications and capacities that teachers bring to their work."
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The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future - What Matters Most (1996)
"This report offers what we believe is the single most important strategy for achieving America's educational goals: A blueprint for recruiting, preparing, and supporting excellent teachers in all of America's schools. The plan is aimed at ensuring that all communities have teachers with the knowledge and skills they need to teach so that all children can learn, and all school systems are organized to support teachers in this work. A caring, competent, and qualified teacher for every child is the most important ingredient in education reform."
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The Holmes Group - Tomorrow's Teachers (1986)
"Much is at stake, for American students' performance will not improve much if the quality of teaching is not much improved. And teaching will not improve much without dramatic improvements in teacher education."
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The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education - Educating a Profession (1976)
"If the promise of the teaching profession is to be achieved, we must attend to the processes by which its knowledge base is developed and transmitted."
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