TOUGHER STANDARDS FOR POTENTIAL EDUCATORS
The State Board of Education in Illinois is poised to raise the standards for any college student wanting to have a career in teaching. It will be more difficult to get into a college teaching program and more difficult to stay in one if a student’s test scores don’t achieve the required level.
I have no problem with the raised academic standards. Let’s get only the “best and the brightest” in the teaching profession. Unfortunately, there are about a hundred other factors as important as general knowledge when it comes to determine who will make a great teacher.
I would suggest that the current teacher-bashing forces in the State of Illinois need to tone down their rhetoric before any college bound students start to question the wisdom of attempting to have a career in teaching. I hope the “best and the brightest” aren’t scared off by the fact that teacher salary, benefits and pensions are under constant attack. I hope the “best and the brightest” don’t take their talents on another career path after
I have no problem with the raised academic standards. Let’s get only the “best and the brightest” in the teaching profession. Unfortunately, there are about a hundred other factors as important as general knowledge when it comes to determine who will make a great teacher.
I would suggest that the current teacher-bashing forces in the State of Illinois need to tone down their rhetoric before any college bound students start to question the wisdom of attempting to have a career in teaching. I hope the “best and the brightest” aren’t scared off by the fact that teacher salary, benefits and pensions are under constant attack. I hope the “best and the brightest” don’t take their talents on another career path after
