Ever since his bestselling The Education of American Teachers appeared last fall, James B. Conant has been under heavy fire from teachers' groups and with good reason. The main target of Conant's book is the "bankrupt" system of teacher certification by which states dictate what courses a potential teacher must take in college to get a public-school license. The result, he charged, is that colleges are forced to teach insipid "Mickey Mouse" courses that turn out uneducated teachers. Conant's solution: abolish the state rules, free colleges to upgrade teacher training,...
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