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Teacher Education in Countries Around the World: Studies in the ERIC Data Base

The search for the most effective methods to achieve excellence in teacher education in the United States has led in recent years to increased interest in the preservice and inservice teacher education programs in countries that have consistently produced students with academic achievement levels superior to those of students in public schools in the United States. The documents and journal articles cited in the ERIC data base provide valuable information on these programs. ERIC is also an excellent source of new ideas for U.S. educators on how their counterparts in other countries are dealing with reform in teacher education, recruitment and selection of capable teacher candidates, equity in minority education, preparation of teachers to be computer literate, bilingual education, and many other issues under study in education in the United States. The amount of information in ERIC on preservice and inservice teacher education in other