Reforming a College

Despite persistent calls for teacher education reform, can schools of education make the level of changes needed? Reforming a College describes what the faculty at one college accomplished despite the constraints endemic to higher education. The New College of Education at The University of Tennessee-Knoxville sought to change how the faculty work with one another, their students, and the profession they serve. What was done at Tennessee reveals what is possible and often impossible to achieve in institutions that extol educational change but do not reform their own practices.

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The Editor: Richard Wisniewski is Professor and Dean Emeritus at The University of Tennessee-Knoxville. He has served on five education faculties and has been active in efforts to reform, re-create, or restructure colleges of education - the new «three R's» for teacher educators. Dr. Wisniewski advocates charter colleges of education as a way of accelerating the reforms needed.