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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP.  I think the point the person is trying to make is that unfortunately the best and brightest aren’t going into teaching in the US but rather it is the bottom of the barrel.  As a result the education system as a whole suffers.

In other countries like Finland, teachers and education are valued and so the education system functions well. [/quote]

It's a fallacy that the "bottom of the barrel" goes into education in the US--that is based on the scores of people who have education as a major, not the majority of teachers who major in their subject.  The states that offer education as the most common undergraduate major for teachers tend to have lower SAT scores altogether.

When you compare graduate SATs ed grad programs do score lower than others, but that's primarily because it's a wider swatch of people who go on to grad school in education--only the most academic go on to other graduate degrees, but to even get a teaching license in many states you have to do a master's/post-bac program and many school systems require a master's degree to improve your pay/keep your licenses.  Teachers enroll in master's programs while full-time teaching and don't prepare for the GRE as they have to just meet the minimum benchmark to get in the program--there's not a lot of pressure to get into a more 'elite' program via higher scores because you are likely going to the closest one because you are a full-time teacher.

That said, Finland DOES make it very hard to become a teacher and teachers are highly respected and it shows in student learning outcomes so I agree with you there.[/quote]

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