To strengthen the nation's teacher preparation programs, President Obama is asking the Department of Education to move forward with a plan to issue draft regulations that encourage and support states in developing systems for rating programs and providing them with information to help the programs improve.
"Poor programs, what they do is produce teachers who are underprepared, are ineffective, and who are frustrated," Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, said during a conference call with reporters on Thursday. "Too many teacher-prep programs give little or no information about how their graduates are actually doing once they enter the teaching profession. That is simply unacceptable and must change."
A draft of the proposed rule will be available for public comment this summer, Mr. Duncan said, with a goal of publishing a final rule within the next year.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Education-Dept-to-Move/146191