• National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (main site of the Council)
  • NCATE overview of its evolution and current organization
  • "Frequently asked questions"
  • The full 2006 document (compare with the 2002 version )
• At the state level:
  • Indiana's "Standards"
• A brief introduction from the point of view of an accredited School of Education (from the State University of New York at Cortland)
• An NCATE "exhibit room" (guidelines from NCATE)
  • from Teachers College, Columbia University
  • from Florida State University
  • from the University of Vermont
  • course syllabi:
    • example 1
    • example 2
• No Child Left Behind
  • The Act
• The intellectual precursor: Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) .
  • The 1993 document signed by Jean Miller, Director of INTASC and Linda Darling-Hammong, Chair of the drafting committee
  • This is explicitly referenced in various state level publications justifying the move to "standards."
    • Georgia State University
    • Idaho State University
    • The University of Mary Washington
• The critics
  • from the "right"
    • "The accreditation game" by SANDRA VERGARI & FREDERICK M. HESS. Stanford: Hoover Institution web site
    • The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education criticizes Teachers College (President Furhman's official response as placed at the top of the TC web site) [as of October 14, 2006]
  • from the "left"
    • "Foreword" by Michael Apple to Trivializing teacher education (Johnson et al 2005)