More ABCTE Back And Forth

Stateline writes-on the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence and ABCTE’s Madigan takes exception to the report.

Punchline: The folks now saying that ABCTE is too costly because of its high up-front costs relative to the number of teachers certified (including two in this article both of whom should know better…) sure were not saying the same thing when that charge was being leveled against the National Board For Professional Teaching Standards a few years ago…

Madigan is also right on the GAO issue. But, as Eduwonk has said before, the lack of execution from ABCTE is troubling as is the slow pace of state adoption; it can’t all be blamed on politics…