Rebooting teacher prep

Rebooting teacher prep
In statehouses and universities across the country, a few farsighted Americans are pursuing what high-achieving countries have found is the most efficient education reform: making it harder to become a teacher, writes Amanda Ripley for Slate. Over the past two years, 33 states have passed meaningful laws or regulations to elevate teacher education in ways much harder to game or ignore. Instead of trying to reverse engineer teaching through complicated evaluations leading to divisive firings, these changes would reboot teaching from the beginning. A 2014 review by the National Council on Teacher Quality of 836 education colleges found only 13 percent earned its top rank; Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas have the highest number of top-ranked programs. This summer, the Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation will finalize new standards. And Rhode Island, once with one of the lowest entry-bars for teachers, by 2016 will require its education colleges to only admit students with a mean SAT, ACT, or GRE score in the top half of national distribution. By 2020, the average score must be in the top third, putting Rhode Island in line with nations like Finland and Singapore. No one gets respect by demanding it, Ripley writes. Teachers and their colleges must be the same kind of relentless intellectual achievers they're asking America's children to be. More

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