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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Low brow: education majors. Unfortunately the teaching profession just doesn’t have respect (which I think it should.)

High Brow: STEM/pre-med[/quote]

Historically, not the sharpest tools in the tool box become teachers.
Thus [b]education majors are extremely easy.[/b][/quote]

This is incorrect. Many if not most teachers don't major solely in education--they major in their discipline and take a program in undergraduate or post-bac to get a teaching license or a Master's degree that gives advanced coursework in a specialty (e.g. literacy, assessment, science education).  In Virginia for instance, it is only as of the last year or 2 that there even IS an undergraduate education major --it's been brought in to address the teacher shortage and universities are scrambling to create it.

The reason "education majors" look like low-scorers in summaries of undergraduates is that it's a  subset of teachers--often those who want to teach PreK-3 who just major in education--who are often the weakest academically (though they may be very well-suited temperamentally/in "soft skills" for the earlier childhood years).  Also, the states with the weakest educational systems--preK-higher ed that are more likely to grant undergraduate education majors as the primary teaching license.  Stronger states have stricter requirements.  The strong elementary school teachers may major in developmental or educational psychology, or in a content area (English, Biology, Math) which are far more challenging.

But the summary stats feeds the narrative that "teachers are dumb" in the US.  (Note: I'm not a teacher).[/quote]

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