Times, they are a-changing, and that road to reward is being resurfaced. Colleges are including PDS qualifications in their ads for new staff members. Systematic action research is becoming more respectable. When lexicographers revise dictionary definitions, they rely on patterns of current usage. This leaves scholarship to drift along toward irrelevance and practice to drift along toward incompetence.
School systems bear the principal responsibility for educating youngsters, of course.
Because competent, inspiring teachers are the key to systemic school progress, teacher-educators must necessarily be an integral part of any enduring solution. They can make outstanding contributions while enhancing their professional expertise. By traveling together, college and school faculty members will not lose sight of each other, and perhaps can learn how to enable all youngsters to have a fair chance to reach for the stars. 1999 Editorial Projects in Education Vol.