school types
type: Concept
narrower: professional development schools

professional development schools
type: Concept
definition: American colleges and universities that prepare future teachers have collaborated with elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools throughout the nation's history to provide those future educators with appropriate real-life experiences, particularly during the penultimate, student teaching, semester, quarter, or year. These school-university partnerships have proven beneficial to both the PreK-12 schools, which get additional hands in their classrooms as well as a firsthand look at potential new hires, and to the colleges and universities, who rely upon the PreK-12 sites for an element of realism in their teacher preparation programs. [Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent; Professional Development Schools]
broader: school types

concepts
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type: ConceptGroup
member: professional development schools