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The article focuses on the negligence of teacher education in the U.S. Even Commissioned reports on school reform from the early 1890s into the late 1980s make little mention of the negligence. Naive tendency of teacher educators is the result of the neglect of teacher education. Intense interest on the part of policy makers is the result of the influence from outside teacher education. The mire of medicine and medical education has a important lessons to be learned from . Today, the renewal of teacher education is hindered like no other field by myths derived from yesterday's knowledge made credible by mandated policies. A renaissance in teacher education has to be jumpstarted. Inquiry into teaching should remain in the shadows and not be pushed into the light in the present climate of school and teacher education. Advice of Vartan Gregorian that colleges must make teacher education their central preoccupation has to be followed. There will be a time when political context of schooling and teacher education will engender and support the conditions necessary to a flourishing discipline of teaching.

The article comments on the key goals and objectives of elementary education in the U.S. Every educator and administrator who desires to make good schools even better is challenged by the task of human engineering. The vision and skills to improve schools are necessary to achieve the primary objectives of elementary education.

One of the most popular, or at least one of the most common, activities of teachers during the summer months is attendance at ‘workshops.’ This article is a very interesting account of how one such workshop was substantially revised and improved through the analysis of its original structure in terms of current educational theory. The authors report that the original organization provided for theoretically complete freedom of choice which turned out to yield very little continuity of learning or security for participants. Clues to a different approach emerged from the observation of certain special groups which operated in the same setting but outside the regular structure of the workshop. These clues led to an analysis of the entire organization of the workshop and to general revision of its structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]