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Bloomberg Editorial: Deepening the Ignorance
from The Daily Bell
How to Teach Better Teachers … U.S. schools don’t have enough great teachers. There are various reasons for that, chief among them tenure protections that prevent principals from cutting loose low performers and union contracts that require the worst teachers to be paid the same as the best. But the trouble begins even before teachers arrive in the classroom: Education schools at U.S. universities don’t give them the preparation they need to succeed. According to a recent study by the National Council on Teacher Quality, only 1 in 4 education schools restrict admission to the upper half of college students. A 2007 McKinsey study found that, globally, countries with the highest-performing school systems recruit teachers only from the top third of their classes. … Raising professional standards will send universities a message: Quit cranking out education-school graduates who won’t make the grade. – Bloomberg editorial
Dominant Social Theme: If we can just tinker with the system properly we can affect the outcomes adequately.
Free-Market Analysis: So Bloomberg suggests that schools only hire education-school graduates from the top third of their graduating class. These “super teachers” will improve the system. That’s the idea anyway.
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