Grading of Teacher Colleges to Be Revamped
The organizer of a plan to review all 1,400 schools of education and publish the findings in U.S. News & World Report is altering several key aspects of its methodology—an attempt, officials for the group say, to respond to mounting complaints about the study.
The National Council on Teacher Quality posted its
grading criteria
online Wednesday morning to address concerns among education school deans that the review wouldn’t be transparent or accurate. It also plans to supplement the content-based analysis at the heart of its methodology with information on candidate classroom performance culled from “value added” data.
Finally, the organization will not, as previously planned, issue a failing grade to institutions that don’t...
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