U.S. Secretary of Education Calls for Education Overhaul
Does way that teachers are trained in the United States need to be changed? According to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, that is definitely the case.
During a speech at Columbia University’s Teacher’s College, Duncan, said that many education programs in the United States are “mediocre.” Duncan also predicted that the United States will need to train as many as one million new teachers within the next five years. In order to achieve this, Duncan suggested that universities all around the country need a “revolutionary change” in the way that educators are trained.
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Duncan criticized universities around the country for treating schools of education as “cash cows” due to their low costs of operation and steadily high enrollment. Duncan commented on the state of education training in the U.S. by sating that, “By almost any standard, many if not most of the nation’s 1,450 schools, colleges and departments of education are doing a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the realities of the 21st-century classroom.”
The Education Secretary went on to say that hundreds of teacher he has met complained that they did not get enough practical training with poor students and other classroom behaviors.
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Duncan also criticized the fact that while more than half of educators in the U.S. are trained at colleges of education, only a small portion comes through alternative programs like Teach for America.
Duncan, a Democrat from Chicago, Illinois, was appointed Secretary of Education on January 21 by President Barack Obama. The Department of Education was established by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, and began operating on May 4, 1980. The Department of Education was created to generate funds for education and enforce privacy and civil rights laws.
The current budget of the U.S. Department of education, according to their website, is $68.6 billion.
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