The nation’s colleges of education are doing a “mediocre job” of preparing teachers for “the realities of the 21st-century classroom” and need “revolutionary change—not evolutionary tinkering,” Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will say in a speech on Thursday at Columbia University’s Teachers College.
In a prepared text of his speech, the secretary accuses colleges of using their schools of education as “cash cows” and “profit centers” to finance “prestigious but underenrolled graduate departments like physics—while doing little to invest in rigorous educational research and well-run clinical testing.” He calls on colleges to make student outcomes “the overarching mission that propels all their efforts.”
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