The Holmes Group Report and the Carnegie Forum on Education and Economy Report offer an opportunity for teacher educators to work on long-held goals involving liberal arts education, teacher education candidates, college school cooperation, role definition of teacher educators, and teacher graduate education. (MT)

A professor of American literature ruefully reports on an interview with a student who will soon be a teacher. It is suggested she has been deprived of knowledge in the name of creativity, deprived of skills in the name of self-expression, deprived of understanding in the name of values. (Author/MLW)

An education major enrolled in a mathematics education course ponders confusing definitions of "multiplication" functions in dictionaries and in a handout on Euclid. This student teacher wants to teach elementary students what multiplication really is, not just impart an algorithmic skill. (MLH)

Five demographic myths related to education pose dangers to educational planning and thinking. The first myth says the return of service personnel after World War II caused the baby boom. Actually the baby boom began in 1939 and was not related to service personnel. The second myth claims the Great Depression decreased the birth and fertility…

Gifford and King debate the value of the bachelors degree in education. Abolition of the undergraduate degree in education is seen as essential to Gifford. King believes that a greater shortage of teachers could occur if colleges don't prepare teachers through their present modes. (MLW)

The author, a professor of education, is not surprised at the public outcry over incompetent teachers. He cites examples from his own experience of education students who cannot write, who prefer not to think or deal with theory, and who treat grades as a numbers game. (SJL)

Elementary education majors surveyed indicate positive attitudes toward the importance of nutrition education within the elementary curriculum but a seriously limited nutrition knowledge. (JMF)

Focuses of the alienation felt by women in the schools that educate students for the caring professions (education and nursing). Discusses how a potential source of infusion of feminist values into the dominant institution can be lost. (NB)

Reading represents the single most important tool for teaching students "how to learn" across the curriculum, and the time has come to encourage widespread development of undergraduate reading degree programs for future teachers. Ten years ago, Eastern Washington University began offering Reading Education as an undergraduate major for elementary…

The 1980s have been a period of stable or declining numbers and proportions of minority students in colleges and universities. There has been a sharp drop in the number of Black and other minority education graduates. Ways of reversing this trend are addressed. (MT)

Test scores of education majors have always been lower than those of other majors. The decline in scholastic aptitude of prospective teachers is only of consequence if it is related to the mastery of professional skills. Schools of education should recruit high-aptitude students and make them aware of career options in education. (JN)

Examines the factors that are discouraging academically able college students from becoming secondary teachers. The author argues that teacher education should remain a university-based activity in order to attract better students and to ensure that these students will be academically prepared to educate children in common schools adequately. (SR)

An experienced teacher reflects on changes in teacher education programs, noting educational background is only one part of a continuous process for self-renewal involving graduate courses, inservice credits, workshops, and committees. Education students, who now spend more time in the classrooms, are encouraged to do fieldwork and pursue…

A survey of institutions offering doctoral programs in education found no clear institutional movement toward either Ph.D. or Ed.D. degrees; increasing reluctance by research universities to offer the Ed.D.; increasing likelihood by comprehensive institutions to offer Ed.D. degrees; and similar requirements for both degrees. Three common arguments…

The drive to eliminate undergraduate teacher education programs raises problems. Discusses the hostile climate of opinion expressed about teacher education in many colleges and universities. (MD)