UW-Madison’s Julie Underwood says controversial teacher education rankings “don’t mean much”
“So whether the ratings are lackluster, or horrible, or great doesn’t mean much to me,” she said.
UW-Madison School of Education programs in secondary education were deemed to be in the bottom half nationwide and were not ranked.
Underwood is not the only educator skewering the NTCQ ratings released this week that discredit Wisconsin teacher training pretty much across the board, as charted in a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article.
The Wisconsin Association of Colleges for Teacher Education rejected the evaluations in a statement this week, calling Washington-based NCTQ “a private political advocacy organization” with no standing to review teacher preparation programs in Wisconsin.
“However well-intentioned NCTQ’s review process may be, it does not reflect good practice in program evaluation, is not sensitive to the particular needs of this state, and represents a politically-motivated intrusion into the state’s rights and responsibilities to oversee its education system and licensing practices,” the association concluded.
Underwood was less optimistic about the intentions of the ratings.
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Wisconsin takes a baby step toward teacher content knowledge requirements via MTEL elementary language standards.
