Implications of the Cooperative Study of Teacher Education for Libraries

IN T H I S paper I shall attempt briefly to outline the Cooperative Study of Teacher Education with a view to indicating what it hopes to do, to describe some of its activities, and to point out what seem to me to be the implications for libraries and librarians. The study is an undertaking initiated by the Commission on Teacher Education of the American Council on Education for the purpose of improving the education of elementary and secondary school teachers. It is national in scope in that it touches all sections of the United States and involves practically all types of collegiate institutions and school systems. On the assumption that the greatest good to the greatest number would result from intensive work with a limited number of collegiate institutions and school systems, the commission selected twenty colleges and fourteen school systems to serve as a spearhead in an attack on broad problems of teacher education. This selection was made in June 1939, and the study will continue to January 1943.