“The number of students enrolling in college following high school completion was 70.1 percent in 2009. The rate for females (73.8 percent) was higher than the rate for males (66.0 percent).” – Bureau of Labor Statistics
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
CommunicationWorks collaborated closely with leaders of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Clinical Preparation and Partnerships for Improved Student Learning to shape the content of a report that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called "the most sweeping recommendations for reforming the accreditation of teacher preparation programs in the more than century-long history of our nation's education schools." The panel of national education experts and critics called for teacher education to be "turned upside down," placing clinical practice at the center of teacher preparation.
In addition to the policy guidance CW provided, the firm also oversaw the report’s release event, at which Secretary Duncan was a featured speaker, and drew significant coverage in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Education Week, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications, and changed the national conversation around teacher preparation.
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National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) accredits 667 schools, colleges and departments of education, which produce two-thirds of the nation’s new teacher graduates annually in the United States, and is recognized as a specialized accrediting body by the U.S. Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
