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- Title: Current Research Topics in Childhood Education.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 174 KB
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In the summer of 2005, doctoral students in early childhood education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who were enrolled in the course Current Research Topics in Early Childhood Education were asked to choose and review articles that reflected what they believed were the most recent, "cutting-edge" areas worthy of research in childhood education. Topics chosen included teacher education reform, changes in family structures, home-school partnerships, issues related to equity, and trends associated with accountability. With the exception of the first article, which I reviewed, the following are the results of reviews written by these doctoral students.--JA TEACHER EDUCATION HOMING IN ON CONTENT: National Project Also Tied to Student Achievement. Jacobson, L., Education Week, 2005, 24(39), 1, 18. There have been numerous efforts at reforming teacher education over the past 20 years. One of the more recent initiatives is called "Teachers for a New Era" and is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, with additional support provided by the Ford Foundation and the Annenberg Foundation. The project involves reforming teacher education in three important ways: "by becoming engaged with the arts and sciences, by treating teaching as a clinical-practice profession, and, perhaps most important for policymakers, by producing evidence of the effects their graduates have on student performance" (pp. 1, 18). Institutions participating in Teachers for a New Era include "Bank Street College of Education, Boston College, California State University-Northridge, Florida A&M University, Michigan State University, Stanford University, University of Connecticut-Storrs, University of Texas at El Paso, University of Virginia, University of Washington, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee" (p. 18).