Teacher Association Backs 1 Accreditor.

The article reports that the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is trying to promote a strong accreditation system to improve teacher training and to ward off possible government moves to impose new public-school teaching standards. The system will involve one accreditor for all teacher-training colleges, a measure that caused criticism from those who claimed it favored the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education over a younger rival group, the Teacher Education Accreditation Council, which was created in 1997.