In this article, the authors offer a descriptive essay outlining the framework and processes of a five-year institutional renewal effort at Bank Street College of Education. Extended the opportunity to participate in the "Teachers for a New Era" (TNE) initiative, a multi-year, multi-million dollar effort to enhance and "radically…

"A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century" is critiqued. National certification of teachers and changes recommended for preservice teacher education are praised, while neglect of the role of the principal and relations between teachers' unions, school boards, and administrators are pronounced serious flaws. (MT)

The attack against teacher education has seemed increasingly focused and pervasive in recent years with the national government joining the discussion. The 2002 U.S. Secretary of Education's Annual Report on Teacher Quality (U.S. Department of Education) called for the dismantlement of teacher education programs and their "burdensome requirements"…

Presented is a condensed version of the Executive Summary of "A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century," the report of the Task Force on Teaching as a Profession of the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy. (MT)

This paper analyzes "A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century" in terms of its emphasis on student achievement. The report is seen as "possibly a monumental and historic achievement." (MT)

Both the Holmes Group and the Carnegie Task Force harbor a deep distrust of teachers, it is argued. Their recommendations are authoritarian and seek, through top-down controls of teacher education and credentialing institutions, the voluntary and enthusiastic acquiescence to the given structure by educators. (MT)

Study by the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy's Task Force on Teaching as a Profession assessed problems in teacher preparation, offered reform proposals, and recommended school and teaching force restructuring. The article outlines the major proposals, compares the report with earlier studies, and provides an assessment. (SM)

The consequences and implications of supporting the Holmes, Carnegie, and other proposals are discussed. Concerns about and endorsements of some features of various reforms are specified. (MT)

The Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy report, "A National Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century," is discussed from a teacher's point of view. (MT)

The article discusses how historically Black institutions are addressing standardized test proposals for teacher certification in such areas as admissions, coursework and practice, and post-graduation activities. General recommendations are included, emphasizing formalized, gradual, knowledge-based development into the teaching profession. (CB)

There is widespread understanding of the need to evaluate teacher education programs. Unfortunately, the history of teacher education program evaluations is spotty, evolutionary, and limited in scope. Probably the most fundamental reason that program evaluations are limited is that there has not been a clear, consistent, and shared framework for…