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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd like to see a requirement that teachers score above the 75th percentile in both the verbal and quantitative sections of the GRE before they can be licensed.  You could set a lower percentile for the very lowest grades.

Teaching suffers as a profession because it is thought one doesn't have to be very smart to become one--witness the low bar for entering a school of education.

The profession has never recovered from the outflow of all the best and brightest women once they were able to join the work force as scientists, doctors, lawyers, and business executives and were no longer limited to just nursing, secretarial work, and teaching. [/quote]

The problem with poor education results starts at home. If education is not emphasized at home, even the best teachers are not going to make much of a difference. Take the teachers from the best performing MOCO and FX schools and put them in the poorest schools in DC and PG and see what happens - not much.   It may help for a short period, then the teachers will burn-out and move on.

Raise the bar to get into teaching as you recommend and all it will do is drive up salaries.  There will also be the usual problems with minorities being even more under-represented in teachinging/mentoring positions.. We now put huge resources into so-called failing schools and are getting little bang for the buck.  The problems of why we have failing schools are well-known, but these reasons are hard for progressives to accept.[/quote]

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