Edutopia Names 10 Best Practices Schools of Education  

Calling attention to the crisis that confronts teacher preparation in the United States, Edutopia has identified 10 schools of education that are blazing the trail to better practices. These innovative programs – which include public and private programs of various forms and sizes – are emerging to lead the way to teacher preparation that more closely mirrors the demands of teaching in real classrooms.
Each of the institutions and their education programs are featured in the November/December issue of Edutopia and on Edutopia.org (www.edutopia.org/schools-of-education). Edutopia’s 10 Leading Schools of Education:

  Alverno College (Milwaukee, WI)

  Academy for Urban School Leadership (Chicago, IL)

  Bank Street College of Education (New York, NY)

  Boston Teacher Residency (Boston, MA)

  Curry School of Education (Charlottesville, VA)

  Emporia State University (Emporia, KS)

  Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)

  Montclair State University (Montclair, NJ)

  Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)

  University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)

Edutopia is published by The George Lucas Educational Foundation, founded in 1991 by filmmaker George Lucas as a nonprofit operating foundation that publishes media to document and disseminate the most innovative practices in K-12 education, including how technology offers many new opportunities for teaching and learning.
For more information on why these schools were chosen by Edutopia, visit www.edutopia.org/schools-of-education. Accompanying the "10 Schools of Education" feature is an Edutopia video, titled Empowering New Teachers: Bank Street College of Education, in which aspiring educators are taught new skills with a focus on experiential learning, classroom immersion, and mentoring (www.edutopia.org/bank-street-video).

— Teachers of Color