Teachers Iz Stoopider!
The last I spoke of Laura Waters, she was playing a particularly ugly game of innuendo. I guess that's the sort of stuff B4K likes, because she recently left a guest post on their blog:
In a related article today, Matthew Di Carlo in The Shanker Blog notes that the “cognitive ability” among female students who choose teaching as a career has declined over time:An important 2004 longitudinal analysis of the trend in teachers’ cognitive ability (as measured by math/reading tests) suggests that the proportion of female students who both chose teaching and scored in the top ten percent on these tests was around 15-17 percent