(Source: Niagara University) This week, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NTCQ) released a report along with a new system of rating teacher preparation programs in the United States. NCTQ is not an accrediting organization; rather it defines itself as a nonpartisan, nonprofit and policy group. One would not, therefore, recognize this group, or any advocacy group, as an impartial assessor of fact and data. While NCTQ evaluated 1,130 institutions on various configurations of its standards, the report states that only 10 percent of institutions fully participated. As noted by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), "while the results are generating...
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