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...Although Conant proposes that teachers be drawn from the top 30 per cent of high school graduates, he gives no suggestions as to how this should be done, Sizer said. He claimed that the teaching profession today is nowhere near Conant's goal: too often teachers come not from the top of the academic ladder but from the bottom...
...Sizer pointed out that The Education of American Teacrers plays down the importance of such "fifth year" programs, and "is actually concerned with the big universities [which give undergraduate training in education]; Indiana, for example, trains more teachers in a year than all the M.A.T. programs in the country." Conant believes that a proper four-year bachelor of arts program--complete with courses in education and practice teaching--should be sufficient for elementary and high school teachers...
Sizer had no quarrel, however, with Conant's recommendations for drastically revising state education laws to give immediate certification to any graduate of a legitimate teacher training program whose competence is attested to by the president of the institution...
...pointed out that if this recommendation were adopted graduates of the M.A.T. program could gain immediate certification in all states, something that is impossible at present because some states require special courses or types of training that Harvard does not offer--California, for example, requires courses in "visual aids." Conant's recommendations would do away with all such requirements and allow individual colleges and universities to determine their own programs of preparation...
Although the actual impact of Conant's recommendations on program of the Graduate School of Education would be small, the book has generated wide interest among faculty members, and will be the subject of a pasel discussion at the School's formal opening on Oct.23...