Teacher Education Tiff Playing Out in Print

By Joanna Richardson

Lately, the pages of several national magazines have been ablaze with talk of a cutting debate between two of teacher education's more visible personalities.

One is a longtime professor of education and respected researcher; the other, a young organization president with bold designs on teacher preparation.

Earlier this fall, Linda Darling-Hammond, a professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, wrote a highly critical piece about the Teach for America project for the education journal Phi Delta Kappan .