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<blockquote data-quote="Kathrine" data-source="post: 60382" data-attributes="member: 568"><p>Some of the best private schools in the country will not hire someone with just an education degree. They insist you have an academic degree. There are a lot of bad teachers out there with an education degree (and good ones too) and there are a lot of good teachers with no education degree. A lot of colleges water down the education degree so that not-so-bright people can easily earn one. (And some education degrees are not watered down) Right now in our country highschoolers who score in the bottom third on standardardized tests are the ones accepted into the schools of education. That's not impressive. (I am not saying that all teachers or current students are low scorers--just that right now that is the current disturbing trend.) My point is that an education degree doesn't necessarily make you a good teacher. In fact, many of our brightest college students leave the education degree program because it is not challenging enough for them. I got this information from the gov't study on education out of the U.S.Dept. of Education. If my son's school had teachers who were all education majors I would watch them all like a hawk. If his school had teachers who did not have an education degree I would watch them like a hawk too. The degree has nothing to do with how well a person teaches. It's up to the parents to determine if the teachers are teaching well and to monitor the progress of the children.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathrine, post: 60382, member: 568"] Some of the best private schools in the country will not hire someone with just an education degree. They insist you have an academic degree. There are a lot of bad teachers out there with an education degree (and good ones too) and there are a lot of good teachers with no education degree. A lot of colleges water down the education degree so that not-so-bright people can easily earn one. (And some education degrees are not watered down) Right now in our country highschoolers who score in the bottom third on standardardized tests are the ones accepted into the schools of education. That's not impressive. (I am not saying that all teachers or current students are low scorers--just that right now that is the current disturbing trend.) My point is that an education degree doesn't necessarily make you a good teacher. In fact, many of our brightest college students leave the education degree program because it is not challenging enough for them. I got this information from the gov't study on education out of the U.S.Dept. of Education. If my son's school had teachers who were all education majors I would watch them all like a hawk. If his school had teachers who did not have an education degree I would watch them like a hawk too. The degree has nothing to do with how well a person teaches. It's up to the parents to determine if the teachers are teaching well and to monitor the progress of the children. [/QUOTE]
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