Friday, December 21, 2007

Student Education: NAACP declares a state of emergency

According to Associated press, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation plan to train teachers in the subject of math and science. The program will use Indiana as a model for training an elite group to go out into the America to improve teacher education in the future.

The program will start in 2008 with the first fellow to hit the ground running in 2009. From the news release: Both the state and the national versions of the strategy focus on four goals:
§ Transform teacher education—not just for Fellows but for the universities that prepare them, other teacher candidates in the same programs, and the high need
schools where they are placed as teachers;
§ Get strong teachers into high need schools. Indiana has chosen to focus on attracting math and science teachers, though other states may choose different subject areas;
§ Attract the very best candidates to teaching through fellowships with well known
names and high visibility; and
§ Cut teacher attrition and retain top teachers through intensive clinical preparation and ongoing in school mentoring, provided by veteran teachers and supported by able principals.

Read the news release here

From Inside Indiana Business, "Schools are only as good as the teachers who serve in them,” said David Haselkorn, senior fellow at Woodrow Wilson, who directs the Foundation’s teaching fellowships. “This is a new strategy to ensure excellence in teaching, the profession that shapes America’s future.”

Recently the local NAACP made some similar recommendation impacting the racial tension occurring at EAST ALLEN COUNTY DISTRICT that goes way beyond study circles.

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