Some question report critical of ed schools

None of the interviewees in a new Education Week online article claimed education schools were perfect, but they did have some doubts about the recent National Council on Teacher Quality report questioning the general quality of those schools. Some questioned its near-exclusive focus on whether the programs examined mentioned the big five—phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension—in descriptions of their course materials. Others said the five components identified by the National Reading Panel in 2000 as key elements of reading education might be addressed in coursework, even if they were not mentioned in the materials reviewed, or might have been included in recent program changes.