Reforming teacher education : something old, something new / Sheila Nataraj Kirby ... [et al.].

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Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2006Description: xxvii, 168 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

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0833039822 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0833042521 (electronic bk.)
9780833039828
9780833042521 (electronic bk.)

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LB1715 .R363 2006

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Introduction -- TNE in the context of the broader teacher education reform effort -- TNE's theory of change: assumptions, enabling factors, and potential outcomes -- Profiles of the TNE Institutions -- Implementation progress and thoughts about sustainability of TNE -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Teachers for a new era web sites -- Appendix B: Implementation progress: first cohort of grantees -- Appendix C: Second cohort of grantees: sites included in the national evaluation -- Appendix D: Second cohort of grantees: sites not included in the national evaluation -- Appendix E: Florida A&M University.

Summary: Teacher education has been subject to both scathing criticism and innumerable efforts designed to reform it or to save it from being dismantled. One of the latest and most well funded efforts aimed at teacher education reform is boldly titled Teachers for a New Era (TNE). Eleven colleges and universities of various types nationwide were selected to participate in TNE. The TNE initiative emphasizes evidence-based decisionmaking, close collaboration between education and arts and sciences faculty, and teaching as an academically taught clinical-practice profession. The RAND Corporation and the Manpower Research Demonstration Corporation followed and evaluated the TNE initiative from October 2002 to September 2005, conducting on-site interviews with TNE grantees. The authors place TNE in the larger context of teacher education reform and critically examine the process by which reform will result in highly qualified teachers capable of producing improvements in student learning. They also examine TNE's contributions to the grantee institutions' teacher education programs and organizational culture and assess the sustainability of TNE beyond the life of the grant.

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"This research was conducted within RAND Education and reflects RAND Education's mission to bring accurate data and careful, objective analysis to the national debate on education policy"--Preface.

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Teacher education has been subject to both scathing criticism and innumerable efforts designed to reform it or to save it from being dismantled. One of the latest and most well funded efforts aimed at teacher education reform is boldly titled Teachers for a New Era (TNE). Eleven colleges and universities of various types nationwide were selected to participate in TNE. The TNE initiative emphasizes evidence-based decisionmaking, close collaboration between education and arts and sciences faculty, and teaching as an academically taught clinical-practice profession. The RAND Corporation and the Manpower Research Demonstration Corporation followed and evaluated the TNE initiative from October 2002 to September 2005, conducting on-site interviews with TNE grantees. The authors place TNE in the larger context of teacher education reform and critically examine the process by which reform will result in highly qualified teachers capable of producing improvements in student learning. They also examine TNE's contributions to the grantee institutions' teacher education programs and organizational culture and assess the sustainability of TNE beyond the life of the grant.

Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.