Reclaiming Accountability in Teacher Education

Winner of the 2019 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Winner of 2018 AESA Critic’s Choice Award Teacher accountability has been a major strategy for “fixing” education for the last 2 decades. In this book, Cochran-Smith and her research team argue that it is time for teacher educators to reclaim accountability by adopting a new approach that features intelligent professional responsibility, challenges the structures and processes that reproduce inequity, and sustains multi-layered collaboration with diverse communities. The authors analyze and critique major accountability initiatives, including Department of Education regulations, CAEP accreditation procedures, NCTQ teacher preparation reviews, and edTPA, and expose the lack of evidence behind these policies, as well as the negative impact they are having on teacher education. However, the book does not conclude that accountability is the wrong direction for the next generation of teacher education. Instead, the authors offer a clear and achievable vision of accountability for teacher education based on a commitment to equity and democracy. Book Features: <ul>
<li>Proposes a new approach to reclaim accountability: democratic accountability in teacher education.</li> <li>Offers a historical overview of accountability in the era of education reform. </li> <li>Embraces accountability and reconstructs its targets, purposes, and consequences in keeping with the larger democratic project.</li> <li>Introduces an accessible framework for investigating dimensions of accountability policy and practice.</li> <li>Deconstructs four of the most visible education reform initiatives relevant to teacher educators and education stakeholders.</li>
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Education & Teaching

Cochran-Smith, Marilyn

Carney, Molly Cummings

Keefe, Elizabeth Stringer

Burton, Stephani

Chang, Wen-Chia

Fernández, M. Beatriz

Miller, Andrew F.

Sánchez, Juan Gabriel

Baker, Megina

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

Children at the Center: Transforming Early Childhood Education in the Boston Public Schools

Children at the Center provides a closely observed account of a decade-long effort to reshape the scope, direction, and quality of the Boston Public Schools’ early childhood programs. Drawing on multiple perspectives and voices from the field, the authors highlight the reflective, collaborative, inquiry-driven approach undertaken by the program and share lessons learned. Boston Public Schools are recognized for embedding high-quality, public preK programs in their system and achieving exceptional results. In this book, the authors outline the core principles that underlie the district’s early childhood programs and explore the role of curriculum, professional development, coaching, and data use in supporting these new initiatives. They show how the Boston Public Schools Department of Early Childhood was able to work with and against the constraints of the current accountability system to create a holistic, child-centered, play-based program that has had a significant impact in narrowing income-based learning gaps. Written in collaboration with the Department of Early Childhood Education, this account of creating successful preK programs in a diverse urban district will provide a valuable resource for practitioners engaged in similar work across the country.

Mardell, Ben

Bardige, Betty

Harvard Education Press

Children at the Center provides a closely observed account of a decade-long effort to reshape the scope, direction, and quality of the Boston Public Schools’ early childhood programs. Drawing on multiple perspectives and voices from the field, the authors highlight the reflective, collaborative, inquiry-driven approach undertaken by the program and share lessons learned. Boston Public Schools are recognized for embedding high-quality, public preK programs in their system and achieving exceptional results. In this book, the authors outline the core principles that underlie the district’s early childhood programs and explore the role of curriculum, professional development, coaching, and data use in supporting these new initiatives. They show how the Boston Public Schools Department of Early Childhood was able to work with and against the constraints of the current accountability system to create a holistic, child-centered, play-based program that has had a significant impact in narrowing income-based learning gaps. Written in collaboration with the Department of Early Childhood Education, this account of creating successful preK programs in a diverse urban district will provide a valuable resource for practitioners engaged in similar work across the country.

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