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Teching lessons.(graduates to teach in public schools)(Brief Article)
America's colleges of education convinced state legislators years ago that only their graduates should be allowed to teach in public schools. Rather than coming out of traditional academic specialties, therefore, future teachers are products of a "how-to-instruct" curriculum that too often combines political correctness with content-light coursework.
Now the training of teachers is being undercut even further. Across the nation, colleges of education are promoting students less on grades, and more on attitudes and beliefs. The result: an irresistible opportunity for professors to promote ideological causes.
As reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education, evaluations of students interested in teaching increasingly ask "whether students value social justice, acknowledge white privilege, and agree to be change agents in battling sexism, racism, and homophobia." In a typical example that illustrates how political activism is trumping academic knowledge, Washington State's College of Education asks its ...
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...adolescents in Grades 9-12 in public schools, sponsored by the Centers...was administered in Washington State in April 1999. All public schools, including alternative...any of Grades 9-12 in Washington State were included in the sampling...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News January 18, 2003 700+ words
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...appears. Nowhere is this debate hotter than in Washington state, where the Nov. 4 ballot includes an initiative...to a 40 percent drop in firearms incidents in Washington state public schools, from 286 to 171, in the 1995-96 school...
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- Magazine article from: T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) Rice, Newel S. September 1, 2005 700+ words
...schools grappling with how to better monitor student performance, and at Everett Public Schools, we were grappling, as well. Everett is a Washington state public school district comprising more than 25 schools serving over 18,000 students...
Source: HighBeam Research, Teching lessons.(graduates to teach in public schools)(Brief Article)