Partnerships Between Higher Education and Secondary Schools: Some problems

Data drawn from three case studies of higher education-secondary school partnerships in an urban western city in the United States is reported and a number of obstacles to collaborative partnerships identified. These include large school size, departmentalization, administrator turnover and the apprenticeship view of teacher education held by teachers. Contextual, school specific, factors often had powerful effects in modifying and negating program partnership goals. Research that is both level and site specific to further efforts to develop productive collaborative teacher education partnerships is suggested.