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Article: NCATE, PC, and the LCME. (National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, political correctness, Liaison Committee on Medical Education)(response to James H. Sutton's Undermining a Profession article in October 1993 issue)
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- May 1, 1994
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A Response to James Sutton
Though "an avid supporter of national accreditation for teacher education," Mr. Parker has some bones to pick with the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education -- and he wishes that James Sutton and others would attend to his complaints.
THE DAY after our National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) site visit, a colleague from another department came up to me and said, "Well, I understand we passed all the standards except the politically correct ones. Congratulations!" I smiled weakly and thought to myself how sick I was of hearing this fellow's harangues about political correctness. At ...