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Zancanella, Don – English Education, 2008
As coeditor of the April 2006 issue of this journal, Tara Star Johnson wrote an eloquent essay in which she explored "the increasing bureaucratic pressure to mass-produce, homogenize and monitor students" as manifested in the No Child Left Behind Act and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) accreditation…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Accreditation (Institutions), Phenomenology, Teaching Experience
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McCracken, Nancy Mellin – English Education, 2004
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), signed into law in 2002, bears certain resemblances to the war on terrorism in Iraq. Of course, NCLB will not directly produce any civilian casualties or smashed buildings, but the political strategies used to roll it out have been eerily similar to those used in the war against terrorism. Disturbing rates of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Politics of Education, Educational Change, Colleges
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Altwerger, Bess; Arya, Poonam; Jin, Lijun; Jordan, Nancy L.; Laster, Barbara; Martens, Prisca; Wilson, G. Patricia; Wiltz, Nancy – English Education, 2004
In this article, the authors first describe their research, then discuss the ethical and professional dilemmas they face as teacher educators as a consequence of NCLB. Here, they offer some possible approaches to coping with these dilemmas in the context of university undergraduate and graduate teacher education programs. Their study examined the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Federal Legislation, Grade 2, Inservice Teacher Education