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TEACHER TRAINING PowerfulTeacher Education: Lessons From Exemplary Programs by Linda Dartmg-Hammond (Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley, www.iosseybass.com: 448 pp.. $32 hardback!,

Darling-Hammond, a professor of education at Stanford University, singles out seven teacher education programs as being among the most successful in the nation at graduating skilled teachers well prepared to serve a variety of learners. She outlines the curriculum, methods, and goals of the seven-Alverno College; Bank Street College of Education; Trinity University; the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Southern Maine; the University of Virginia; and Wheelock College-to demonstrate what effective teacher training, as she views it, looks like in practice, and describes the institutional policies and resources underlying those programs. Outstanding teachers are not simply born, but can be made, she avers, provided they have access to strong preparation. To that end, DarlingHammond advances a policy agenda for making high-quality teacher education more widely available.