California Lifts One-Year Cap on Teacher Preparation.

The article discusses a California state law approved in August 2013 which allows teacher education programs to offer up to two years of formal preparation, an increase of the previous one-year restriction. Information is provided on California's near-elimination of an undergraduate teaching degree in 1970 and requirements for a yearlong postbaccalaureate program that included pedagogical skills and student-teaching. Comments from Linda Darling-Hammond of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing are included.