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Martin L king

hers would be much better educated and would be eased into their jobs with help from experienced mentors. Since the Carnegie report, there has been slow and steady work on a variety of fronts to improve the quality of the nation's teaching force. A consortium of 38 states is working together to devise new, rigorous standards for beginning teachers and to come up with new ways of measuring whether candidates deserve a license to teach. This is in contrast to the current system, which focuses on what coursework candidates have completed--a piece of information which tells little about their ultimate performance with students. The national organization that accredits education schools has stiffened its standards and is pressing programs to submit themselves to scrutiny. And the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, an outgrowth of the Carnegie report, has begun setting standards of accomplished practice and certifying expert teachers who can meet them. These steps, advocates say, eventually will put teaching on a similar footing with other professions, such as law, medicine, and architecture. In those fields, members of the profession set their own standards for entry into the field. In return for this relative freedom from outside regulation, their members strive to uphold high standards and discipline one another when they fail. In education, 11 states have created autonomous standards boards to set standards for teaching, rather than leaving the task to the state board of education. Teaching is one of the country's most unionized occupations. The National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers' union, boasts 2.2 million members. Its rival, the American Federation of Teachers, has 900,000 members. And there are signs that the teachers' unions are interested in playing a greater role in ensuring that their members are well prepared for the job. A group of union leaders from both organizations is meeting regular...

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