March 10, 2000

Joint Faculties Formed to Help Train Teachers

By JULIANNE BASINGER

To improve the training of schoolteachers in academic subjects, some colleges have begun forming separate teacher-preparation faculties made up of professors from arts-and-sciences departments as well as education schools.

Speakers at last week's annual conference of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education said state lawmakers had pushed education schools to produce schoolteachers with a deeper knowledge of academic subjects than most

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