Teacher Education 1991-2002, 1991-2002

Draft of speech by AFT president Sandra Feldman at White House Conference on Preparing Quality Teachers, March 5, 2002; proposed changes to Commissioner's Regulations re teacher preparation; Metropolitan Life Survey of the American Teacher 1991: The First Year: New Teachers' Expectations and Ideals; background paper prepared for the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, "The Current Status of Teaching and Teacher Development in the United States," by Linda Darling-Hammond, November 1994; summary report, "What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future," report of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, September 1996; National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), "Standards Procedures & Policies for the Accreditation of Professional Education Units," 1997; "The Essential Profession: A National Survey of Public Attitudes toward Teaching, Educational Opportunity and School Reform," Recruiting New Teachers, Inc. (funded by Philip Morris Companies Inc.), 1998; handwritten notes. See also: Professional Development