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1. The start-up year for a very different sort of Graduate School of Education. It's a tiny subset of...
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3. ...A multi-kajillion-dollar effort to improve the ludicrous odds (7% or so) of a poor kid ever getting a college diploma.

Arne

Posted: November 29th, 2012 | Author: | | No Comments »

Michele McNeil of EdWeek:

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan continued to lay out his priorities for the next four years in a speech today, emphasizing that he thinks teacher preparation is broken and that the best educators need to be teaching the highest-need children….

Without getting specific, Duncan said there are a “number of things we plan to do,” and said the department is looking at some sort of competitive initiative to foster innovation in schools of education. He continued, “We need to push very, very hard in schools of education.”

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