AACTE President/CEO Clarifies Facts following NAME Position Statement on edTPA

(January 24, 2014, Washington, D.C.) AACTE shares the National Association of Multicultural Education’s (NAME) goal to support equity and multicultural education. In fact, that is a key reason that AACTE supports the new rigorous, authentic assessment system edTPA. It represents a groundbreaking step by the profession to integrate into teacher preparation the awareness, pedagogy and skills necessary to educate students from all backgrounds from the teacher’s first day in the classroom.