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Teaching Teachers

Name: Teaching Teachers
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781421426358
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Changing Paths and Enduring Debates

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By James W. Fraser, Lauren Lefty, Foreword by Arthur Levine
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 248

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As recently as 1990, if a person wanted to become a public school teacher in the United States, he or she needed to attend an accredited university education program. Less than three decades later, the variety of routes into teaching is staggering. In Teaching Teachers, education historians James W. Fraser and Lauren Lefty look at these alternative programs through the lens of the past.

Fraser and Lefty explain how, beginning in 1986, an extraordinary range of new teaching programs emerged, most of which moved teacher education out of universities. In some school districts and charter schools, superintendents started their own teacher preparation programs, sometimes in conjunction with universities, sometimes not. Other teacher educators designed blended programs, creating collaboration between university teacher education programs and other parts of the university, linking with school districts and independent providers, and creating a range of novel options.

Fraser and Lefty argue that three factors help explain this dramatic shift in how teachers are trained: an ethos that market forces were the solution to social problems; long-term dissatisfaction with the inadequacies of university-based teacher education; and the frustration of school superintendents with teachers themselves, who can seem both underprepared and too quick to challenge established policy. Surveying which programs are effective and which are not, the book also examines the impact of for-profit teacher training in the classroom. Casting light on the historical and social forces that led to the sea change in the ways American teachers are prepared, Teaching Teachers is a substantial and unbiased history of a controversial topic.

Foreword, by Arthur Levine
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Considering the Future of Teacher Preparation in Light of the Past
Chapter 1. The Emergence of Alternative Routes to Teaching
Chapter 2. Transforming University Programs
Chapter 3. The New Hybrids
Conclusion: Lessons Learned
Notes
Index

""Fraser and Lefty tell a coherent and compelling story about work at places like Stanford to rethink university-based teacher education. In telling that story, they also highlight reform efforts inside institutions that are all too often overlooked'places like Montclair State, in New Jersey and the University of Indianapolis... meticulous readers will pick up on the old divide between policy and politics. Policy is cold and dispassionate'what works is what wins. But politics isn't like that. The story Fraser and Lefty tell is one that overflows with both.""

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