“By almost any standard, many if not many of a nation’s 1,450 schools, colleges as well as departments of preparation are you do a mediocre pursuit of preparing teachers for a realities of a 21st century classroom,” he told an assembly of expertise members, students and teachers at Teachers College of Columbia University. “America’s university-based teacher preparation programs need insubordinate change — not evolutionary tinkering.”

Duncan’s speech bore down on the colleges as well as graduate schools which prepare some-more than half a teachers in U.S.

Arthur Levine, president of a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation as well as former dean of Teachers College, said the speech “threw a lifeline to university-based teacher education programs” as some-more states as well as school districts are turning to other kinds of teacher certification programs to get bodies to the blackboard.

“It’s an unusual gift entrance from Cabinet member Duncan.”

Many of Duncan’s observations piggybacked off Levine’s 2006 argumentative report, “Educating Propagandize Teachers” (the source of the statistic which three of 5 teachers felt unprepared for their jobs), which accused schools of preparation of being “the Dodge City of the education world …

Sharon Robinson, president as well as CEO of the American Association of Colleges for Clergyman Credentials (AACTE), pronounced she suspicion there was “a degree of criticism in what he’s saying and a grade of reality in what he’s saying, too — copiousness of these teacher education programs aren’t functioning as they need to be.”

Robinson had panned Duncan’s Oct 9 debate at a University of Virginia, “A Call to Teaching,” job it a rehashing of “shopworn criticisms of clergyman preparation programs” and asking him to do a some-more thorough hearing of programs in allege of Thursday’s speech.

Duncan upon Thursday applauded AACTE as well as its 800 member institutions for perplexing to do a better job preparing teachers, something he didn’t do in his Virginia speech. He pronounced that group as well as the National Council for Accreditation of Clergyman Credentials (NCATE) “are resolutely behind the new drive to link teacher preparation programs to better student outcomes.”

Duncan didn’t just list Columbia and Harvard among a institutions doing a good pursuit preparing teachers. To Robertson, that signaled he was “more willing to look at good programs rather than only focusing on a bad.”

Chan, chancellor of a University of Washington Bothell, said education programs at his institution “actually price us a lot of money.”

Brad Portin, director of Bothell’s preparation program, pronounced Duncan’s speech didn’t exhibit any “new news for us” and echoed many of a tropes from Levine’s study.

Nonetheless, he said, “Duncan’s debate affirmed a ideas out there about preparing all the teachers to work with a very diverse tyro community” as well as bridged the “disconnect in between what has traditionally happened on university campuses to hope for teachers as well as the margin portion of a experience.”

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Patrick Riccards — CEO of Exemplar Strategic Consulting, which advises preparation groups, as well as author of the blog Eduflack — pronounced he suspicion schools of preparation needed to work on improving their self-awareness as Duncan as well as the Department of Credentials begin their charge to reshape American clergyman education. “You’re not starting to find a college of education that’s starting to say ‘we’re partial of the problem,’ ” he said. “People enter the field to try to assistance people and everyone wants to hold they’re partial of a solution. You’d be tough pressed to find a dean who will mount up as well as say ‘I’m not doing my job.’ “

But, he said, all institutions need to admit there’s room for improvement. “We’re listened now for some-more than a decade about this looming clergyman shortage as Baby Boomers retire – obviously a economy’s thrown that off a bit – though we still need to think about training more teachers and training them better.”

Robinson said a same.”We need to admit all that’s required to meet the needs of the future,” she said, “and those programs which can’t do which need to close.”