August 17, 2001
Teacher Education Must Become Colleges' Central Preoccupation
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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