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[quote=Anonymous]  Every veteran teacher knows this part from the above paper:

[quote]For a long time, the United States has
operated its schools on the assumption that
it could get the teachers it needed while
calling them professionals but paying them
far less than it paid most professionals,
often less than it took to support a family.11
Americans evidently thought it was perfectly
okay to take a teacher trained in one subject
and have them teach another—any other—
subject, which could only have been true if
Americans thought that it did not make any
difference whether their children were taught
by someone who actually knew anything
about the subject being taught.12 Legislatures
routinely waived the very weak standards for
entering the teaching profession in the face
of a shortage, but we never do that for the
professions requiring expertise that matters
to us, like medicine, civil engineering and the
law. In those professions, when a shortage
develops, the market raises compensation
until we have enough professionals to meet
the need. But we have never been willing to
allow the market for teachers to operate that 9 www.ncee.org
@ctredecon
way. Evidently, the only thing that really
mattered was that there was a warm body
facing the students. In recent years, the
United States had been celebrating programs
that put recent college graduates in front of
students as teachers with only a few weeks
of teacher training.13, 14 School boards,
acting as if a teacher’s skill and experience
made no difference at all, were giving the
toughest teaching assignments to the most
inexperienced teachers. On the theory
that one teacher was the same as any other,
many were often eager to hire two cheap
new teachers right out of teachers college to
replace one experienced teacher whenever
they could.15 [/quote][/quote]

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