Eleven colleges and universities in the United States were designated “Teachers for a New Era” (TNE) institutions by the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Corporation of New York upon the recommendation of President Vartan Gregorian and Education Division Chair Daniel Fallon. The institutions were identified through a process that included research conducted by analysts from the RAND Corporation, the advice of a distinguished national advisory panel, site visits, and proposal review. Contingent upon progress toward aims expressed in their proposals, each institution will receive a grant for $5million over five years, which the institution must match, for a total commitment at each site of at least $10million. The TNE initiative challenges the colleges and universities to restructure their programs of education for teachers so as to set a national standard for excellence, as described in the Carnegie Corporation of New York's prospectus, Teachers for a New Era: A National Initiative to Improve the Quality of Teaching.

Click on the links below to read about what the institutions are doing to reform their teacher education programs.

TNE Institutions Funded Since 2002

Bank Street College of Education

California State University, Northridge

Michigan State University

University of Virginia

TNE Institutions Funded Since 2003

Boston College

Florida A & M University

Stanford University

University of Connecticut

University of Texas at El Paso

University of Washington

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

TNE in Scotland

Scottish TNE website