Teacher training schools to be ranked for first time

01-24-2011

By Louis Freedberg/California Watch

Just as more teachers are facing performance rankings of their work, dozens of teacher training schools in California will be judged for the first time in a nationwide survey set for publication in U.S. News and World Report. The planned rankings come against a backdrop of plummeting enrollment in California's teacher training programs, as well as harsh criticisms of these programs, including a now famous blast from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. He described schools of education as doing "a mediocre job" and in need of "revolutionary change, not evolutionary tinkering." Ranking California's 77 teacher training programs and some 1,300 others nationwide will be the nonprofit National Council on Teacher Quality, with $3.5 million in private foundation grants. The largest donor is the Los Angeles-based Broad Foundation, which has been a leading force in promoting charter school organizations in California and nationally, among other reforms. (more…)

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