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Teacher education

2004

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Louisiana State University

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A Case Study Of A University-School Partnership: Impacting The Success Of Children, Teacher Candidates, And Inservice Teachers, Paula Summers Calderon Jan 2004

A Case Study Of A University-School Partnership: Impacting The Success Of Children, Teacher Candidates, And Inservice Teachers, Paula Summers Calderon

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

School reform is an often heard term within the Bush administration. Since the signing of his No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), President George W. Bush set out to make certain our teachers are highly qualified and that our children perform better in school. From the Holmes Group (1986) to present-day mandates from The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), university-school partnerships are becoming part of preservice teacher education as well as school reform. This study describes a pilot university-school partnership, focusing on teacher candidates, inservice teachers, and P-5 students. Employing qualitative and quantitative analysis (Gall, …