Reformers are increasingly calling for and adopting practice-based approaches to teacher preparation, with particular emphasis on identifying and centering core practices. In this article, we argue that organizing teacher education around core practices brings its own risks, including the risk of peripheralizing equity and justice. Situating our…

The foundational document of the current science standards movement--the "Framework for K-12 Science Education"--is grounded in research about how students from diverse backgrounds learn science and the conditions under which they can participate in knowledge-building activities of the discipline. We argue that teacher educators should…

Knowing that a teacher education program's graduates affected P-12 student learning may be important, but knowing how the program prepared their graduates to affect learning is critical for ongoing reform efforts. In this essay, the author argues for the utility of looking at three sets of relationships involved in gauging the impact of teacher…

The authors, faculty members in the new Graduate School of Education at the High Tech High schools in San Diego, discuss three trends that are reshaping our world and the ways we get work done. They then discuss the implications of these trends, both for how we educate our young and how we train and develop our teachers. Positing a reciprocal…

Educational reform developments focusing on academic issues are contrasted with those emphasizing teacher performance. The concept of quality assurance in teacher education is considered, as is using student achievement as an indicator of teacher effectiveness. (Author/MT)

Involvement of the teacher education community in school reform efforts is essential to effective teacher education reform. Schools of education that avoid sustained involvement in such efforts will be perceived by prospective teachers as unresponsive to or hypocritical of the critical issues of schooling. (Author/CB)

The author finds the National Commission on Excellence in Education's report, "A Nation at Risk (1983)," deficient in three major aspects. It underestimates schools' contributions; it identifies the wrong problem; and it prescribes simple solutions for complex problems. (JMK)

Implications for citizenship education in "The Paideia Proposal" and "Paideia Problems and Possibilities" are discussed. Teacher education should develop skills necessary for the Socratic method of seminar discussion and require readings of historical documents such as the "Declaration of Independence." (PP)

Local schools, teacher education institutions, and other state agencies have recognized the advantages of the network concept and have moved toward relying on the state IGE network structures. (MM)

This article discusses what teachers will soon be expected to know and do with respect to computers and computer literacy. Teacher education, teaching jobs, and school plants will be affected. Teacher training institutions must address issues associated with developing information technology. (PP)

The report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform," is criticized for overemphasizing human resource needs and economic utility at the expense of intellectual, moral, and spiritual learnings. Other perspectives on reform in the schools and in teacher education are…

Moral reasoning is part of and necessary for everyday life, and it is important in teacher education programs. Teacher educators must consider moral issues and engage in moral reasoning with their students in all areas of education. This paper provides examples of how some teacher educators have incorporated such issues into actual and proposed…

Explores narratives about teacher work articulated through representations of substitute teachers, using this representation to render visible assumptions governing boundaries of professionalism. The article discusses professional teachers as constructed in educational reform; images of substitute teachers (incompetent, unqualified, deviant…

Suggests that teacher education research has not yet found a distinctive place in the lexicon of educational research, discussing the influence of policymakers. After presenting an informative model of educational renewal that emphasizes medical education, the paper discusses lessons learned from the saga of medical education and asks whether it…

This article urges redefinition of the relationship between general and special education at the classroom level and in teacher education programs. A major concern is the dependence upon the expertise of special educators which currently characterizes the general education community. This dependence is described as a constraint upon teacher…