AACTE Responds to New Report on Teacher Education Program Accountability

AACTE Senior Vice President Jane West participated in a panel July 29 responding to the new Center for American Progress report Measuring What Matters: A Stronger Accountability Model for Teacher Education. AACTE has released an official response statement and a list of resources related to the accountability topic. "We welcome and endorse the statement that 'no single measure – no matter how powerful the findings – is enough to gauge all the relevant compotents of teaching quality of program effectiveness,' " said AACTE President/CEO Sharon P. Robinson. News coverage of the report and panel include a blog post on Education Week's "Teacher Beat" blog, an article in Inside Higher Ed, and an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education. In addition, Inside Higher Ed ran a relevant essay August 2 by Milton Greenberg on postsecondary institutions' responsibility for "the care, feeding, and reform of elementary and secondary education in America."

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