New Findings on Teacher Preparation

Most new elementary- and secondary-school teachers graduated from traditional four-year or five-year education programs run by public colleges and not from alternative programs that prepare students to teach, despite a recent increase in the number of those programs, says a book released in June by the American Educational Research Association.

The book, titled Studying Teacher Education: The Report of the AERA Panel on Research and Teacher Education,finds no evidence that either

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