Trip Gabriel, New York Times; Teachers’ Colleges Upset By Plan to Grade Them:
"...U.S. News & World Report is planning to give A through F grades to more than 1,000 teachers’ colleges, and many of the schools are unhappy, marching to the principal’s office to complain the system is unfair.
Numerous education school deans have protested that the ratings program’s methodology is flawed since the program was announced last month. In a letter last week, officials from 35 leading education colleges and graduate schools — including Columbia, Harvard, Michigan State and Vanderbilt — denounced an “implied coercion” if they do not cooperate with the ratings."
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Teachers’ Colleges Upset By Plan to Grade Them; New York Times, 2/9/11
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