Many schools did not participate in the study, and some aspects of California's
teacher preparation system resulted in state schools being rated lower than in other states.
Not exact matches
Its
system of identifying low - performing
teacher -
preparation programs considers: the accreditation status of the
teacher education unit; passing rates on
teacher - certification exams; and
results from the state's performance assessments of classroom
teachers.
Texas policymakers» desire to raise standards for
teacher preparation programs and to find new and improved ways to train better
teachers resulted in legislation (S.B. 174) in 2009 that amended the Texas Education Code as well as Chapter 229 of the Texas Administrative Code to create the Accountability
System for Educator
Preparation (ASEP).
Insisting upon keeping annual testing of every student in every grade keeps an unnecessarily disruptive
system in place as part of an accountability
system that, in fifteen years, has not yielded sufficient
results to justify the sacrifices in
teacher autonomy over instruction and the sacrifices in non-tested subjects being shunted aside in favor of test
preparation.