A Rhodes Scholarship For Teaching?

Foundation Hopes to Lure Top Students to Teaching NYT

A foundation at Princeton University hopes to lure top students into teaching and transform teacher education in the United States.

Foundation Will Offer $30,000 Stipends Washington Post

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation launched a $17 million effort yesterday to improve teacher education and steer highly qualified teachers to high-poverty and struggling schools.

Philanthropies Launch National Teacher Education Fellowships EdWeek

The $17 million program is described as a “Rhodes scholarship” for teaching.

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[DoubleH]

Does anyone else think this is not the best use of all that money? I predict the impact will not be near what they expect. Given the entrenchment of ed schools teacher education programs and the lack of connection btw the elite programs and school districts, they aren't going to leverage anything but curriculum in these programs. Most university-based programs lack the capacity and knowledge to follow their graduates into the field. To me, this seems like a way to borrow from the TFA model but water it down for the academics who don't want to consider a truly new model for teacher education. Bummer!