Note what’s missing from this list: improving quality in the classroom. No institution seeks accreditation to improve the education it provides. If any improvement results, it’s a byproduct, not a goal. (Talk about an elephant in the lecture hall!)As someone who used to *volunteer* at the Commission on Teacher Credentialing and worked on ensuring state universities met CDE’s standards for teacher credentialing programs (it’s a type of accreditation), I can state categorically that form over function was the rule of the day.
Education, politics, and anything else that catches my attention.
Thursday, May 18, 2017
College Accreditation
This article identifies many problems in the current accreditation system, but this one is pretty telling:
Labels:
higher education,
teachers
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