Reformers are increasingly calling for and adopting practice-based approaches to teacher preparation, with particular emphasis on identifying and centering core practices. In this article, we argue that organizing teacher education around core practices brings its own risks, including the risk of peripheralizing equity and justice. Situating our…

The Renaissance was a cultural movement initiated in Florence, Italy, during the late Middle Ages and later spread to the rest of Europe, focusing on the improvement of various disciplines through a revival of ideas from antiquity. The influence of the Renaissance movement affected art, literature, philosophy, politics, science, religion, and…

Much of the literature criticizing university-based school leadership preparation programs concludes that programs are, at best, reluctant to change, a conclusion often based more on anecdotal stories than a more systematic inquiry. This article provides evidence on the extent of change in programs since passage of the "Standards for Advanced…

Special education administrators must be prepared for their leadership roles in inclusive, culturally diverse, standards-based school settings. These challenges create the need for new skills, required for effective special education leaders in the 21st century. In this article, the authors examine the standards used to prepare special education…

As part of the Teacher Education Research and Development Programme (TEP), a project focusing on "Stimulation of practice-based teacher education research", was undertaken by Dr. Roger Deacon and Dr. Ben Parker, in conjunction with the Centre for Education Policy Development (CEPD). As part of the project, a set of research guidelines…

This project, associated with the Institute for Training Directors of Teacher Education Reform Programs, focused on selected realities of current efforts that provide alternative programs for teacher education. This report contains theoretical, analytical, and practical models, discussions, and case studies that should be valuable to educational…

The purpose of this paper is to define HETFIRE (the title of a report by the Higher Education Task Force on Improvement and Reform in American Education), and to identify and discuss the key elements contained in HETFIRE. The task force was established in 1972 to determine and conceptualize the best thinking of the higher education teacher…

In 1971 the Scottish Universities Council for Studies in Education (SUCSE) was formally constituted as a representative voice of the Scottish university departments of education. One aspiration was to coordinate degree courses across the universities as a distinctive Scottish MEd degree with credit transfer to promote mobility. However, the…

This brief historical overview of developments in the field of educational technology describes the role of Michigan State University in bringing about significant change in higher education, and the formation and functioning of the University Consortium for Instructional Development and Technology, its Development Institutes program, Behavioral…

The Native American Higher Education Initiative (NAHEI), funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, has departed from the assimilationist approach typical of past efforts to improve higher education for Native Americans. NAHEI supports Native American educational leaders' efforts to articulate their vision of higher education, strengthen their…