A conventional teacher’s licensee usually requires a university degree in education plus an unpaid term of practice teaching. This has never made much sense. It excludes bright students who take degrees in other subjects, and might teach those subjects; it is costly and time-consuming for career-switchers, who must wait a year or more before they can enter a classroom; it is so rigid that private-school teachers or university professors with years of experience have to jump through hoops before they can start teaching in a state school. And there is virtually no evidence that it creates better teachers. For all that, it is strongly backed by schools of education, which have a monopoly of teacher-training, and by teachers’ unions, whose members make more money when it is artificially hard for others to get into the profession.
Now, some 45 states and the Districts of Columbia offer an "alternative route" to a teacher’s licensee, up from only a h
A. Schools now have more male than female teachers
B. Non-whites account for 40% of Texas’s school teachers
C. AC has turned a number of soldiers into teachers
D. The percentage of teachers willing to work in inner city has risen
A conventional teacher’s licensee usually requires a university degree in education plus an unpaid term of practice teaching. This has never made much sense. It excludes bright students who take degrees in other subjects, and might teach those subjects; it is costly and time-consuming for career-switchers, who must wait a year or more before they can enter a classroom; it is so rigid that private-school teachers or university professors with years of experience have to jump through hoops before they can start teaching in a state school. And there is virtually no evidence that it creates better teachers. For all that, it is strongly backed by schools of education, which have a monopoly of teacher-training, and by teachers’ unions, whose members make more money when it is artificially hard for others to get into the profession.
Now, some 45 states and the Districts of Columbia offer an "alternative route" to a teacher’s licensee, up from only a h
A. Ridiculous
B. Unjust
C. Complicated
D. Irrelevant
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