Summer 2004
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Summer 2004 |
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TEAC President Frank
Murray reports that, following its success last year in gaining recognition
from the Department of Education, “TEAC is now devoted to a time-consuming,
but equally important, replay of the federal issues at each state
level. Most states do not require accreditation, but all states require
state program review and approval in teacher education, and many states
use the NCATE standards for this purpose. The difference between TEAC
and NCATE is not in the wording of their respective standards, but
in the accreditation process itself,” Murray said. He noted that despite
NCATE’s and the NEA’s continuing determination to maintain an accreditation
monopoly, TEAC is now a formal option for either program review and/or
accreditation in New York, New Jersey, Colorado, Ohio, and North Carolina,
although “the conditions of reliance on TEAC vary considerably among
these states. Progress in other states awaits the willingness of at
least one program in the state to pursue TEAC accreditation so that
TEAC can enter into pragmatic negotiations with the state about how
the state will regard TEAC accreditation once it is awarded. Promising
protocol discussions have been held with the directors of certification
and licensure in Pennsylvania, Iowa, Utah, Georgia, Virginia, Washington,
Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan, West Virginia, and Kansas and
no substantive obstacles are expected in the negotiation and conclusion
of agreements with these states.” Independent |
