Ed. Schools Strain To File Report Cards
Hundreds of colleges and universities around the country, compelled by Congress to submit report cards profiling their teacher-preparation programs and the students who complete them, are scrambling to pull together data before the April 9 deadline.
Many officials say that efforts to comply with Title II of the Higher Education Act of 1998, the law that takes effect this spring and is aimed at making teacher-preparation programs more accountable, have been hampered by the very people and technology that should be helping them. Moreover, they charge that the reporting problems ultimately stem from a federal accountability system that has turned out to be far more complex than its architects intended.
The information Congress is requiring is difficult to obtain for many institutions, said David P. Wright, the associate director of teacher education for the...
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