Not just a few bad apples.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Rating of teacher preparation programs - Brief article

One cause to which this magazine has been dedicated for forty-four years is better teacher training. That we have not been as successful as we would have liked is, alas, the verdict of a recent report by the National Council on Teacher Quality. It rated teacher preparation programs at undergraduate and graduate schools on the basis of selectivity, student teaching requirements, and how well they prepared teachers to teach math and reading. Of...