Almost everyone agrees that schools of education need an overhaul and Martin Kozloff, a reform-minded professor of education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, explains how this should happen in a manifesto posted on EducationNews.org. He calls on state governments to mandate changes in the way ed schools train teachers, to provide a model of a research-based curriculum, and to hold ed schools accountable. Read more in "A Direct and Focused Approach," EducationNews.org, July 2001, at http://www.educationnews.org/a_direct_and_focused_approach_ne.htm