ASU plans big change in teacher training ![[Untitled]](https://wikifoundryimages.s3.amazonaws.com/HpteacQd3LR_F87-uj2g7A13485 "[Untitled]") Less time on theory, more focus on subject Pat Kossan - Jan. 25, 2010 The Arizona Republic Making Teaching a Profession Jennifer Epstein January 5, 2010 Inside Higher Ed The New War Against Ed Schools And Four Suggestions for Ending It Pedro A. Noguera November 16, 2009 Education Week Who Needs Mathematicians for Math, Anyway? The ed schools' pedagogy adds up to trouble. SANDRA STOTSKY 13 November 2009 City Journal Education Secretary Praises Teaching but Criticizes Teaching Programs Kelly Field October 9, 2009 The Chronicle of Higher Education New Guidelines for Teacher Training A needed attempt to reform the accreditation of teacher education schools lacks substance. Sandra Stotsky September 01, 2009 The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy The Negative Influence of Education Schools on the K-12 Curriculum June 30, 2008 By Sandra Stotsky, University of Arkansas  WHO SHOULD BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT BEGINNING TEACHERS NEED TO KNOW? Sandra Stotsky Journal of Teacher Education, Vol. 57, No. 3, May/June 2006 UDC Chief Wants to Cut Undergrad Major in Education Low Graduation Rates Prompt Change as Sessoms Proceeds With an Institutional Overhaul By Susan Kinzie Washington Post Staff Writer March 9, 2009 "...many cannot pass a national standardized test of basic high school-level reading, writing and math skills."UA plans to trim offerings from Education College Budget ax may hit high school PE, history, English By Aaron Mackey ARIZONA DAILY STAR February 27, 2009  Research That Matters Taking Measure Does Modern Math Education Add Up? College of Education University of Education Research or Propaganda? Read it and see for yourself. Teacher Education: Coming Up Empty By: Kate Walsh Maarch 16, 2006 www.edexcellence.net America's Teaching Crisis: Sandra Stotsky interviewed by George A. Clowes - School Reform News The Heartland Institute Aspiring school teachers fail in math Only 27 percent of the teaching candidates pass 19 May 2009 Bruce Mori Racial Equity Requires Teaching Elementary School Teachers More Mathematics Patricia Clark Kenschaft FEBRUARY2005 NOTICES OF THE AMS Teach for America Teach For America's 'Highly Qualified' Is Highly Misleading Ilana Garon December 29, 2010 Huffington Post | To salvage a failing public school system, we need to remove de facto control of the content of the K-12 curriculum from education schools as soon as possible. We can remove their control over teacher training by transferring control of teacher preparation in core subjects and the content of these subjects to discipline-based experts at non-profit independent centers or institutes with principled intellectual and civic goals. We can also require educational textbook publishers to use these academic experts as senior authors or consultants for all school textbooks. Voices are beginning to call for the dissolution of our public school system—a logical result of the increasingly negative influence of education schools on the quality of the curriculum and instruction in it. That influence will continue until their direct control of educator preparation and indirect control of the content and pedagogy in school textbooks is removed. from the Concluding Remarks of The Negative Influence of Education Schools on the K-12 Curriculum June 30, 2008 By Sandra Stotsky, University of Arkansas  Just 41 percent of eighth-grade math teachers majored in math in college. That's 30 percentage points lower than the international average. From No Child Left Behind |