Ed. School Critic, MIT Partner to Launch Teacher-Prep 'Lab'

Education Week: Former Teachers College, Columbia University President Arthur E. Levine is widely known as a critic of teacher education programs. So it may be an example of chutzpah—or potentially hubris—that under an initiative launched today, he’ll be helping create one from the ground up.

“Basically, the reason for doing it is that today’s programs, even the top programs, are outdated. They were built for different times,” said Mr. Levine, the president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, which kicked off the $30 million initiative in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 16.

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