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Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Justice is Done The president of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, Arthur E. Wise, has wisely agreed to drop "social justice" from its organization's list of things they're scanning teachers' "dispositions" for. It happened at a U.S. Education Department panel, on which sat a group of people ready to state the obvious -- that the notoriously vague phrase "social justice" can operate as a political litmus test. But Wise knew who was behind him, both in physical proximity and in order of speech — a small group of third-party witnesses ready to pick apart NCATE’s practices. Anne D. Neal, of ACTA, is right, however: “Removing social justice doesn’t eliminate the issue of imposing disposition on teacher candidates.” IMHO, dropping the whole "dispositions" thing is the way to go. A person's social views are none of NCATE's business. |