Unified Teacher-College Accrediting System Urged
A panel of teacher education stakeholders wants the two national teacher-college accreditors to work together on creating a unified system of accreditation in the interest of boosting the status of the profession. But it also wants colleges to have a choice within that system in how they get accredited.
The
report
, written by a task force convened by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), a Washington-based membership group, calls on the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) to work closely with one another over the next two years to effect a transition into a unified entity.
An AACTE resolution that has been on the books for many years has long demanded a “single, national”...
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