Arthur E. Wise, who heads the group that accredits more than half the teacher colleges in the nation, plans to retire next June. During his 17 years as the president of the National Council for ...

LAS VEGAS–The tight link between political advocacy of multicultural diversity and accreditation of the higher education institutions that train the nation’s K-12 teachers was on display during the ...

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Teacher education programs are now required to meet higher standards or increase their emphasis on classroom training in order to achieve accreditation, according to new guidelines being announced ...

That’s one of the suggestions Arthur E. Levine, the former president of Teachers College, Columbia University, made in his recent report that has the field of teacher education in an uproar. He ...

NCATE’s big report “Transforming Teacher Education Through Clinical Practice” is now out and is eliciting the predictable hosannas. Its blue-ribbon panel event this week was hailed as a transformative ...

The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) recently released the work of its Blue Ribbon Panel on “Transforming Teacher Education Through Clinical Practice.” Launched a few ...

We at the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education appreciate your article that sensitized readers to the main difference between NCATE and the Teacher Education Accrediting Council ...

Donna M. Gollnick, senior vice president of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), recently contacted School Reform News regarding an article about NCATE’s standards and ...

SUNY Cortland, a nationally accredited college for teacher education, will have the opportunity to earn that recognition again when a team from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher ...

With our first NCATE visitation two years away, the University of San Diego was in search of a viable mechanism for formal and summative assessment. Three key designs to implementation solutions ...

Mitchell Langbert states that NCATE never had any realistic, validated competency measures to use in the dispositional assessment of prospective teachers and thus its advocacy of such evaluation in ...