A five-year project to prepare prospective teachers to deal directly and objectively with religion in their classrooms will rate major consideration by the representatives of 269 colleges and universities at the sixth annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education here, February 11 through 13.
The teacher education and religion project, a division of the National Education Association, is expected to develop a program which will give greater emphasis to religion as an aspect of education in the preparation of teachers in all member institutions of the Association.
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