August 17, 2001

Teacher Education Must Become Colleges' Central Preoccupation

By VARTAN GREGORIAN

Almost every day, we hear about the crisis in our public schools, especially the poor quality of teaching. As a nation, we blame our teachers for their professional shortcomings, their failures in the classroom. But that blame is misdirected. Higher-education institutions, in fact, must accept much of the responsibility for the dismal state of public-school teaching today.

Although we have a critical teacher shortage, the nation's 1,300 schools of education prepare more than enough new

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