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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The ranking of different majors by SAT scores (total, reading, math, writing).

Education is pretty much in the last place right above various vocational trades and technicians.

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-average-sat-score-for-every-college-major-2014-10[/quote]

This would be meaningful if

1. the only way (or even the primary way) to become a teacher was to major in education as an undergraduate -- but it isn't
2. SAT scores had any relationship to any real-life factor, let alone teaching ability -- but they don't[/quote]

We are discussing mostly education majors and not career switchers. Career switchers tend to be former attorneys, former scientists, former mathematicians etc. etc. The point was raised that it was relatively easier to become a teacher (major in education) compared to other majors meaning they had lower HS gpa, lower sat scores, reputation of college doesn't really matter, college gpa is lower etc.

There was no assertion that sat/gpa had any relationship to teaching ability. One can have low gpa/low sat scores and be a good teacher or vice versa. The point was that students with lower gpa, lower sat tended to major in education.[/quote]

Assuming this is true, it might explain why there is such turnover in the profession.  People go into it thinking that it's easy and then realize that it's way harder than they expect.

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/mar/31/four-in-10-new-teachers-quit-within-a-year

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