Accreditor Drops Social-Justice Language

The board of the nation's largest organization accrediting teacher-education programs has formally voted to drop controversial language about social justice from its standards for evaluating teacher-education programs.

The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education had been criticized by some students — and by conservative activists — for suggesting that teacher-preparation programs should evaluate students' professional "dispositions" by considering

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