What Would It Take to Make an Ed School Great?

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This book brings new life to the long-standing debate in the United States over whether teacher education, K–12 teaching, and the role that universities play in this work can be revolutionized so that they are less subject to self-defeating conventions and orthodoxy, to the benefit of all the nation’s children. Author John Schwille reexamines the ambitious reform agenda that Michigan State University teacher education leaders brought to the national table in the 1980s and 1990s. This attempted revolution mobilized unprecedented resources to the struggle to transform teaching and learning of subject matter. Conveying this history through the words of the teachers and scholars responsible for it, Schwille shows that a great deal was achieved, but many of the lessons learned continue to be ignored.
  This book brings new life to the long-standing debate in the United States over whether teacher education, K–12 teaching, and the role that universities play in this work can be revolutionized so that they are less subject to self-defeating conventions and orthodoxy, to the benefit of all the nation’s children. Author John Schwille reexamines the ambitious reform agenda that Michigan State University teacher education leaders brought to the national table in the 1980s and 1990s. Conveying this history through the words of the teachers and scholars responsible for it, Schwille offers valuable lessons for current education reformers.
  John Schwille is professor emeritus and former assistant dean for international studies in education at Michigan State University. He has had a fifty-year career in international research in education. He has been honored for lifetime achievement by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) as an honorary member and by the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) as an honorary fellow.
 

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