Teacher Preparation: Problems and Prospects. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives. Ninety-Seventh Congress, First Session (September 9-10, 1981).

Overview & Synopsis

This report contains prepared statements and discussion, made before the House Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, on current problems and future developments in teacher education. Members of the Committee present at the hearing were representatives Simon (chairman), Weiss, Bailey, and Coleman. Witnesses before the committee were: (1) Sharon Porter Robinson of the National Education Association; (2) a panel, representing the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, composed of Dean Corrigan of Texas A & M University, Gwen Baker of Bank Street College, New York City, Mary Christian of Hampton Institute, Virginia, Judith Lanier of Michigan State University, and Nancy Quisenberry of Southern Illinois University; (3) Marva Collins, West Side Prep, Illinois; (4) Vincent Reed, Assistant Secretary of Education for Elementary and Secondary Education; (5) Milton Goldberg, Acting Director, National Institute of Education; (6) Thurmond Daniel, former teacher; and (7) a panel representing the American Federation of Teachers, composed of Myrna Cooper of the New York Teachers Center, New York City, Ronald Spruill of Baltimore Public Schools, and Paulette Bell of District of Columbia Public Schools. (FG)