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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The crisis is in the dramatic disparity of access to opportunity. We do not fund schools equally in this country, and people in underserved school districts are likely to face a plethora of challenges not experienced by those in better served (i.e. rich) districts. While a sliver of the general population is vey well-educated, many in our populace are woefully undereducated. I think this is a travesty - your socioeconomic background shouldn't determine the quality and value of your educational opportunities and experiences. Education is a right.[/quote]

This.

But I would also add that I do think teacher education and training at the college level in this country is poor and doesn't do enough to weed out those who would be ineffective teachers.  More focus needs to be on how to manage behavior in the classrooms and child development.  The idea of reading specialists likely needs to be eliminated as well at least for early elementary.  That should be part of the basic teacher training program and all teachers should be capable of this.

In VA, they eliminated Education as a major in 1990,  They should bring it back and have teachers focus 4 years on methods of Education, behavior management and have student teaching all 4 years instead of just 6 months at the end of senior year.[/quote]

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