Journalistic #1
Summary: This article evaluates the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on colleges with teacher-training programs, concluding that full accountability has yet to be fully realized.
Topic: Accrediting all schools of education
Category: Journalistic
What is it?: Print article in a journal called The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Title: “Congress Shows Colleges They’re Not Off the Hook on Accountability”
Publication Information: The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 5 2008
Author: Kelly Field
Location:
Accessed: Jan. 30, 2009
Support:
- Former President Bush
- Charles Miller, chairman of The Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education
- The Department of Education
- Congress
These sources are all referenced in this article display what efforts are being made, and by whom, to hold colleges responsible for the teachers they produce. Each organization and individual acted by passing a law or making a promise that implied change. The article uses these sources to show that they past efforts are ineffectual despite the prominent figures that put them forth.
Source Analysis: The Chronicle of Higher Education is a prominent journal targeting university faculty and afflilates boasting a weekly print journal and week-day online edition. The journal has close to 80,000 subscribers and 350,000 readers while over one million individuals view the website.
Usefulness: This article is presenting the necessity for colleges have standards inflicted on them and how the absence of such checks has become increasingly apparent. Field brings evidence of attempts to implement accountablility but then shows how these shallow promises have failed to produce any substantial results. This recognition of a wilting check-system frames my topic nicely. This source argues that not only is there a need for schools of education to be evaluated, but that futile efforts have failed. Field’s mention of formidable forces such as former President Bush and the Department of Education only add further weight to her argument and gives me a leg to stand on when shaping one angle of my topic.
Works Cited:
http://www.mhec.org/mhecwww/pdfs/111306miller.pdf
http://chronicle.com/help/about.htm
