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faramir77 posted...

Zeus posted...

Remember: Half of all teachers come from the bottom third of their graduating class. And, when you have the chaff instead of the grain teaching, you wind up continually lowering the bar for teachers.

Citation needed.

At my university in order to get into the education program you needed to already hold a Bachelor's degree with a major in a teachable subject. If your GPA from that degree wasn't at least 3.5 you wouldn't even be considered.

Aren't you Canadian, though? And is using google really that hard? Because, as a teacher, you should be able to look some of this stuff up for yourself =p

http://www.mckinseyonsociety.com/downloads/reports/Education/Closing_the_talent_gap.pdf

The U.S. attracts most of its teachers from the bottom
two-thirds of college classes, with nearly half coming
from the bottom third, especially for schools in poor
neighborhoods. Department of Education data
shows that only 23% of new teachers overall—and
about 14% of those in high-poverty schools—come
from the top third of graduates.
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This reality, so
different from what we find in the world’s highest-
performing school systems, is not the result of a
conscious strategic choice. On the contrary, it is the
by-product of the labor market trends of the past 40
years, the economics and culture of higher education
and school districts, and budget dynamics

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/10/15/08teachers.h30.html

Teaching as a career also lacks academic prestige in the United States, the authors maintain. “More than half of teachers are trained in schools with low admission standards; many accept virtually any high school graduate who applies,” they write
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