teacher education

K-12 Teachers Go Through the University Ideology Pipeline

A few years ago, I read E.D. Hirsch’s Cultural Literacy, a transformative appeal for steering American K-12 education toward deeper academic content and, more fundamentally, toward the primacy of knowledge. The book was a key reason I decided to attend Stanford University’s graduate program in education policy and leadership and reenter the world of education. […]

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Are Ed Schools Failing?

The National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) seems finally to have perceived what was in plain view to many people: that most of America’s ed schools are mediocre at best, offering curricula that mix lightweight courses, ivory-tower ideology, and minimal clinical exposure of student teachers to real-life classrooms. NCATE has revised upwards […]

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