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The article examines the decrease of enrollment in teacher preparation programs in the U.S. The comment of Mary Vixie Sandy, executive director of the California Commission on Teaching Credentials, on the matter is noted. Also noted is the comment of Alisa Chapman, president for academic and university programs at University of North Carolina, on the decline of teaching programs at the university.

The article discusses the work of the organization Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) in promoting U.S. teacher education standards. Topics include problems with the merger of the groups National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC), the views of those two groups on accreditation, and the teacher college admissions standards promoted by CAEP.