Issues Old and New

Christopher J. Lucas

Chapter 3 in Teacher Education in America, 1999, pp 95-137 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Practically everyone writing on the topic of teacher preparation nowadays acknowledges some degree of discontent with existing training programs on all sides. It has always been open season on teacher education; and today, as in the past, detractors are free with criticism. David F. Labaree of Michigan State University comments: “Everyone seems to have something bad to say about the way we prepare our teachers. If you believe what you read and what you hear, a lot of what is wrong with American education these days can be traced to the failings of teachers and to shortcomings in the processes by which we train them for their tasks. We are told that students are not learning, that productivity is not growing, that economic competitiveness is declining—all to some extent because teachers don’t know how to teach.”1

Keywords: Teacher Education; Student Teacher; Prospective Teacher; Grade Point Average; Teacher Education Program (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-07269-6_3

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