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Fixing Teacher Preparation: Analysis and Critique of Major Reform Initiatives

Mon, April 11, 4:30 to 6:00pm, Marriott Marquis, Floor: Level Three, Judiciary Square

Session Type: Symposium

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For more than two decades, a major goal of education reform has been to solve the “teacher problem” by boosting teacher quality, especially the quality of teacher preparation. Taking as its context the policies and politics of the contemporary teacher preparation landscape, this session examines four initiatives intended to dramatically repair teacher preparation based on the assumption that the major driver of reform is accountability and evaluation. The session argues that these and related reforms are reshaping teacher education on multiple levels by foregrounding uniformity, test-based competition, and teacher quality as the key determinant of achievement while at the same time undermining teacher education’s democratic goals and its recognition of poverty and other complex social factors as influencers of achievement.

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