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End The Teacher School Racket. (Society).(Tear Down This Wall: The Case for a Radical Overhaul of Teacher Certification)
The American Enterprise
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March 01, 2002 |
Wooster, Martin Morse |
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Frederick M. Hess, Tear Down This Wall: The Case for a Radical Overhaul of Teacher Certification. Progressive Policy Institute, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue S.E. #400, Washington, D.C. 20003
American public schools are going to need several hundred thousand new teachers in the next decade. But today's counterproductive teacher certification requirements ensure that few of our best and brightest will go into teaching. Frederick Hess, a professor of education and government at the University of Virginia, argues that most of the requirements public school teachers now have to meet should simply be eliminated.
Existing teacher certification requirements mandate that …
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