“The dirty little secret about schools of education is that they have been the cash cows of universities for many, many years, and it’s time to say, ‘Show us what you can do, or get out of the business.’” Nothing terribly controversial about those words, unless you consider the source: Katherine Merseth, director of the teacher education program at Harvard University.
Merseth was not bad-mouthing her own program, according to U.S. News’ Eddy Ramirez, who quoted her in a recent blog post. However, Merseth said that of the 1,300 graduate teacher training programs in the country, about 100 or so are adequately preparing teachers and “the others could be shut down tomorrow.”
“It’s high time that we broke up the cartel,” said Merseth. “We need to hold graduate schools of education more accountable.”
