Comments on: Reid Lyon’s new advanture: American College of Education http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2005/06/17/reid-lyons-new-advanture-american-college-of-education/ 如 影 随 行 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:11:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.2 by: Kevin Miller http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2005/06/17/reid-lyons-new-advanture-american-college-of-education/#comment-928 Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:22:56 +0000 http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2005/06/17/reid-lyons-new-advanture-american-college-of-education/#comment-928 Actually, he was at NIH, not NSF, but I agree that it's interesting and that the underlying economics make it questionable. Actually, he was at NIH, not NSF, but I agree that it’s interesting and that the underlying economics make it questionable.

]]> by: John Lloyd http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2005/06/17/reid-lyons-new-advanture-american-college-of-education/#comment-927 Fri, 17 Jun 2005 17:18:46 +0000 http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2005/06/17/reid-lyons-new-advanture-american-college-of-education/#comment-927 I agree with the concern about whether ACE will be able to cause change absent increases in pay for teaching. If there is financial benefit to having effective teaching skills, then the process of improving education should accelerate. An interesting follow-along story about Lyon's going to work on teacher education will be the extent to which the graduates of the ACE are more competent than graduates of other teacher education programs. (I mentioned this idea in a post on <a href="http://TeachEffectively.com/" rel="nofollow">Teach Effectively!</a>, a sibling to the blog linked in the first paragraph of this posting.) I agree with the concern about whether ACE will be able to cause change absent increases in pay for teaching. If there is financial benefit to having effective teaching skills, then the process of improving education should accelerate.

An interesting follow-along story about Lyon’s going to work on teacher education will be the extent to which the graduates of the ACE are more competent than graduates of other teacher education programs. (I mentioned this idea in a post on Teach Effectively!, a sibling to the blog linked in the first paragraph of this posting.)

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