Like many others before him, John Goodlad in Teachers for Our Nation’s Schools argues that the

heart of the crisis in American education is the link between teacher education and good teaching, with each being a necessary, but insufficient, condition for good schools. Over a 5-year period, he and his collab-orators at the Center for Educational Renewal at the University of Washington examined intensively the health of teacher education at 29 institutions, a repre-sentative sample of 6 types of American teacher edu-cation schools and departments. They assert 19 postu-lates that describe the conditions that are necessary for effective teacher education, and they found that by and large these conditions were absent in the sample. The first five postulates support the establishment of an autonomous, prestigious, knowledgeable peda