National Council On Teacher Quality To Release Guide To Teacher Training Programs

In response to criticism that teacher training programs are leaving graduates unprepared for the classroom, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) plans to conduct an evaluation, NPR reports.

The NCTQ will review 1,000 institutions across the country to give prospective students information about various training programs.

The plan isn't popular with everyone. Some schools are wary of the idea or have already decided not to participate, saying that the NCTQ is rating schools based on the wrong criterion and that training programs are already held to high standards to be accredited.

According to NPR, the consumer guide for prospective teachers will be published in U.S. News and World Report in 2012.

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[Auntydem]

08:54 PM on 05/18/2011

NCTQ sounds like an official government entity or an educational organization. It is not. They don't actually go out and study anything. Thye push an agenda. It's the equivalent of American Crossroads and all the other conservative phony "grassroots" organizations. Who is on the NCTQ Advisory Board? People pushing charter schools - the usual suspects: Michael Feinberg, Founder of The KIPP Foundation, Michael Goldstein, CEO and Founder of The Match (Charter) School in Massachusetts, Paul T. Hill, Director, Center for Reinventing Public Education which supports charter schools and is a recipient of Gates’ money, Wendy Kopp, CEO and Founder of Teach For America, Michelle Rhee, Board of Directors for the Broad Foundation, a proponent of charter schools, Stefanie Sanford, Senior Policy Officer with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, another major proponent of charter schools, Laura Schwedes, KIPP charter schools and Deborah McGriff, Partner, the New Schools Venture Fund.

http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/kate-walsh-nctq-and-us-news-world-report/

[mlaiuppa]

05:23 PM on 05/12/2011

They're welcome to come to California and check out the education department at San Diego State University.

[poeticjustice4all]

12:04 AM on 05/12/2011

I'm not surprised to hear that some nervous schools are claiming ratings will be "based on the wrong criterion." That's the exact same nonsense lousy teachers use when objecting to performance ratings.

[AdmireBucs]

12:08 AM on 05/12/2011

I have to disagree....Finland has the best education system in the world. They concentrate on improving their teachers instead of punishing them.
And basicly all their teachers are in unions.......

[Just a passerby]

09:00 AM on 05/12/2011

Don't bother. Nothing you say will make any difference. He'll keep hammering on the same themes no matter what:

teachers are at fault
teachers are r a c i s t!!!!!
anything that happens, it's the teachers' fault

[CapriRS302]

03:00 PM on 05/11/2011

I'm all for alternative programs. I sincerely feel that my college experience was a waste of time and money, a formality that I had to go through in order to get my teaching certificate. I would have been muc better off if I was allowed to simply have a year of teaching courses, and a year as a student teacher.