Given NCTQs long-standing criticism of education schools, how can it claim to be impartial?
NCTQ has a strong track record of producing fair and objective studies. While we do not defend the status quo, we are deeply committed to high-quality formal teacher preparation. In fact, we consider education schools to be necessary, whereas many education reformers dismiss teacher preparation, arguing that the only solution to improving teacher quality is to attract more talented people to the profession. Unfortunately, studies that compare teachers who enter the classroom with little or no training with those who have gone through undergraduate or graduate-level teacher preparation find no aggregate difference in performance. Only one conclusion can be reached: Most education schools but not all are not adding value. NCTQ believes that teacher preparation, if it were selective and rigorous, can and should add real value.
