September 23, 2005

The Ed.D. -- Who Needs It?

By JENNIFER JACOBSON

Arthur Levine promises not to talk long. But the departing president of Columbia University's Teachers College admits that this may be easier said than done. As he stands before several dozen people in a hotel conference room, he warns that after a recent course, one student wrote on the evaluation: "If I had 20 minutes left to live I'd want to spend them in your class because every minute with Art Levine feels like an hour."

Laughter fills the room where education professors and

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