In a letter to the editor, Arthur Wise, president of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) criticizes the Levine report on teacher preparation for failing to note that accreditation in teacher preparation is voluntary. "As long as public policy, the profession and professional schools are willing to settle for voluntary professional accountability, some schools, including selective schools and weak schools, will opt out," Wise writes. He also points out other alleged shortcomings of the report. Of the 188 doctoral degree-granting institutions that offer teacher preparation, two-thirds are accredited by the NCATE.