The need for a national professional examination for teachers is affirmed as part of a long-range strategy to turn teaching into a true profession. (Author/MT)

The question of who should train teachers and control teacher education is not new, but first it is necessary to determine what a teacher should be. Then goals should be to find the best models of teacher education, provide alternative career paths for teachers, and develop a new national teacher examination. (MT)

The president of the American Federation of Teachers challenges the proposals in the current reform movement that would "turn back the clock" and revise forms of schooling prevalent earlier in the century when children learned from being taught by telling and testing. Individualized education must be continued, using various teaching methods,…

The president of the American Federation of Teachers discusses what educational reform involving the professionalization of teaching and differentiated staffing will mean to teachers. (MT)