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Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2012
The tenor of discussions held in Washington last week by negotiators rewriting federal rules on teacher preparation underscored deep-seated philosophical divisions within the field, including the thorny issue of how much responsibility schools of education should bear for producing effective teachers. Though the panelists did reach compromises on…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Federal Aid, Federal Government
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2011
Federal officials plan to overhaul the reporting requirements for higher education-based teacher preparation in favor of leaner, outcome-based indicators of program quality, according to plans outlined in the president's fiscal 2012 budget request. To bolster the overhaul, the budget also proposes a $185 million new formula grant program, dubbed…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Accountability
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2009
The recently enacted economic-stimulus bill requires every state to take steps to improve teacher effectiveness, as well as to tackle one of the most pervasive problems in K-12 education: inequities in access to top teaching talent for poor and minority children. This article reports that in those two provisions, which governors must address to…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Equal Education, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid
Sawchuk, Stephen; Klein, Alyson – Education Week, 2008
This article reports on a higher education bill awaiting President Bush's signature which moves to increase accountability for programs that prepare teachers. It also refocuses the main federal funding source for education schools on collaborations between such schools and local K-12 districts to improve clinical teacher-training experiences and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Accountability
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2008
In this article, the author talks about a report from Education Sector, a Washington think tank, which concludes that little information exists on whether the $3 billion spent annually by the federal government on teacher quality as part of the No Child Left Behind Act has improved the effectiveness of U.S. educators. The Teacher and Principal…
Descriptors: Grants, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation