Northeastern Rethinks Focus Of Ed. School

By Julie Blair

Boston

Many in the higher education community are watching Mr. Fraser closely as he and Jim Stellar, Northeastern's dean of the college of arts and sciences, work to develop one of the nation's first schools of education run primarily by faculty members from outside the discipline.

The idea is to make content knowledge in subjects like mathematics, biology, and English central to teacher preparation, Mr. Fraser said, by engaging arts and sciences professors in every aspect of the education school: choosing curriculum, making hiring and tenure decisions, and conducting research. Such participation will also help ensure the school a prominent place within the university, where it has long been perceived as an...