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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is a teacher.  She was valedictorian in high school.  Graduated summa cum laude from both high school and college.  National Merit Scholar.  Full merit scholarship in college.  Master of Education in Applied Behavior Analysis.  She has many, many colleagues with similar stats.  I doubt any of her parents know how brilliant she is.  They just know she is a great teachers with a passion for helping children with autism become their highest and best selves.  And she loves her kids so much. [/quote]

This is wonderful and I'm sure she is a huge asset to the profession, but unfortunately, she and her colleagues are the exceptions, not the rule.

Just look at who majors in "elementary education" or the like at any state university in the country.[/quote]

The thing is that states with good education systems generally have teachers major in their content area and then complete the licensure requirements.  SO when you look at the backgrounds of education majors you are often looking at the weaker K-12 systems and the weaker students--not who represents the teachers. Many states the vast majority of teachers are not education majors in undergrad.  So this is looking at a small distorted sample.

And then when you look at graduate school data, yes those who get master's in education are often somewhat lower than other fields in terms of GRE scores, but that's because everyone who wants to be a teacher typically has to get the master's whereas in other fields it's only those who are particularly interested in graduate school who are attending.  The English major who gets a MA in literature because they want to do a PhD is different than the English major who gets an M.Ed. to get their teaching license and required master's.[/quote]
cite? and what "content area" does an elementary teacher major in? I've never heard of this. [/quote]

Up until recently, there were no undergraduate education majors allowed in Virginia.  Elementary teachers would major in a wide range of majors--English, History, Math, Science, Psychology whatever and do their licensure requirements post-BAC.  Because of the shortage in the past couple years they have started having elementary education majors.[/quote]

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