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Friday, June 21st, 2013

University Programs That Train U.S. Teachers get Mediocre Marks in First-ever Ratings

Author:     LYNDSEY LAYTON
Source:     The Washington Post
Publication Date:     17-Jun-13
 Link: University Programs That Train U.S. Teachers get Mediocre Marks in First-ever Ratings
Stephan:   The corruption and degrading of public education in every facet in the U.S. is an extraordinary saga of social self-sabotage. Our children are falling further and further behind the children of other technological societies. You would think it would be obvious that, in the long-term, this leads to a kind of social suicide. But that is only from a national perspective. From an international NGCS view, school privatization is more profitable, and the status of the children of any given nation is not that important. What matters is that the children grow up to be good consumers.

The vast majority of the 1,430 education programs that prepare the nation’s K-12 teachers are mediocre, according to a first-ever ranking that immediately touched off a firestorm.

Released Tuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington-based advocacy group, the rankings are part of a $5 million project funded by major U.S. foundations. Education secretaries in 21 states have endorsed the report, but some universities and education experts quickly assailed the review as incomplete and inaccurate.

Programs at Furman, Lipscomb, Ohio State and Vanderbilt universities received the only ‘four-star

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