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Teeth-Bared Teachers' Ed
In January 2010, “planners” at the flagship campus of the 
fateful decision. The
We know about this thanks to a heads-up article in the (
The Race, Culture, Class, and Gender Task Group, which is apparently too sensitive to call itself a task force, calls for a form of teacher education that tries to make would-be teachers into exemplars of alienation from American cultural norms. They would like to ensure that every student on track to become a teacher in
The task group’s recommendations, strange as they sound, sound familiar to us. Several years ago, the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), the nation’s leading accreditor of schools of education, cobbled together new standards that included rules for future teachers to have the right “disposition” to teach. Among the dispositions NCATE thought desirable was “social justice.” In 2006, NAS challenged the use of “social justice” as a disposition, arguing that it was tantamount to mandating an ideological viewpoint. Art Wise, then NCATE’s president, backed down and removed the rule. Under its new president, however, NCATE appears to have reverted to an approach that puts ideological indoctrination at the center of teacher education. Glenn Ricketts wrote about this in January.
We hope that the citizens of force group is convened to bring agitprop to your state.
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I can't say that I am shocked. 2 years ago I decided to get a teaching certificate. I was required to take a "survey" in the education department. I was not allowed to make a copy of the survey or take it with me to return later. I was asked political and (what I would consider to be) religious questions about "social justice" and other various topics that had NOTHING to do with my qualifications. The one question they did not ask...was my GPA.
by K. Tyson Posted on 11/23/2009
Fifteen years ago a visiting professor from Shanghai told me that he saw in our society the same signs he saw in China at the very beginning of the Cultural Revolution. Looks to me like the College of Education and Human Development's plan moves us all closer to that condition: Self-criticism, confessions, prescribed values and beliefs. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to relive it."
by KenDoyle Posted on 11/24/2009
I've posted a number of additional ominous quotations at http://www.thefire.org/article/11316.html.
K. Tyson, I'm interested to know what school gave you that survey! Contact me privately if need be.
Adam Kissel
by AdamKissel Posted on 11/24/2009