The Phoenix Agenda: Essential Reform in Teacher Education

-All of us are familiar with the ancient story of the Phoenix and its symbolism of rebirth from a desperate situation. No field could better use the magical properties of the Phoenix than teacher education. The field is not just surrounded by critics, it is inhabited by them. Its graduates, current students, faculty, and administrators generate at least as much fury toward it as do the politicians, pundits, and serious scholars who reside outside it. Complaints about teacher education are wondrous in their variety and devastating in their implications. Its students are inferior. Its academic components are too brief and too weak. It is too theoretical and irrelevant to the real world of the schools. It is excessively devoted to pedagogy. It gives too little attention to teaching and practical matters. It squelches the creativity of its students. It resists innovation. Its graduates resist innovation. It is susceptible to faddism.

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