New kid on the Teacher Education Accreditation block under fire

From: Academe | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

CRITICS ARE CALLING THE TEACHER Education Accreditation Council (TEAC), the new national association that accredits undergraduate and graduate programs in teacher education, a politically motivated imposter designed to overcome the public's dissatisfaction with teacher quality. The critics argue that institutions unable to meet the standards of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), which had been the sole assessor of teachereducation programs since 1954, are turning to TEAC, which evaluates programs by determining how well they meet their own standards. NCATE, a ...

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