Reforming Teacher Preparation and Licensing: Debating the Evidence

By Linda Darling-Hammond. Teachers College Record, 2000

230 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This article responds to Dale Ballou and Michael Podgursky's claims that the National) Commission on Teaching and America's Future has misrepresented research data and] findings. After reviewing and responding to each of their charges, the article indicates the ways in which their critique itself has misreported data and misrepresented) the Commission's statements and recommendations. Ballou and Podgursky ignore and misconstrue the research evidence presented by the Commission in support of its key conclusions. Following an analysis of the ways in which the critique misrepresents the findings from research on teacher education to bolster the argument that training for teaching is unnecessary, this reply offers an argument for professional teaching) standards as a key factor in achieving greater equity and excellence in American schools.

Subfields: Education, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Information Systems and Management

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In Education

1. T. Scruggs
2. Margo Mastropieri
3. Edward R. Howe
4. A. Nougaret
5. John Schacter
6. Y. Thum
7. B. Olsen
8. Lauren Anderson

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Edward R. Howe
2. John Schacter
3. Y. Thum
4. Linda Darling-Hammond
5. Lauren Anderson

In Information Systems and Management

1. Edward R. Howe
2. John Schacter
3. Y. Thum
4. T. Scruggs
5. Margo Mastropieri
6. A. Nougaret
7. Linda Darling-Hammond

Citations in the corpus

• Paying for High- and Low-Quality Teaching. (2004, background): “According to Darling-Hammond (2000), " teaching standards provide a reasonable common body of knowledge that consolidate the various definitions of effective teachers " (p. 49).”
• Does Teacher Education Produce Better Special Education Teachers? (2005, background): “…traditional teacher licensure programs generally improved teacher competence, especially when comparison teachers received little or no systematic alternative training (see also Darling-Hammond, 2000a, 2000b, 2001, 2002; Darling-Hammond, Berry, & Thoreson, 2001; Laczko-Kerr & Berliner, 2002).”
• Assessing Teacher Education (2006, result): “The results and the survey instrument are reported in Darling-Hammond, Chung, and Frelow (2002).”
• Careers in Motion: A Longitudinal Retention Study of Role Changing among Early-Career Urban Educators (2008, background): “We also know that the strongest predictor of student achievement is having a fully credentialed teacher in the classroom (Darling-Hammond, 2000).”
• Exemplary Teacher Induction: An international review (2006, background): “Nevertheless, there is ongoing debate over the merits of preservice versus inservice training, mentoring and induction of teachers (Darling-Hammond, 2000).”