Quality of incoming teachers in NYC and NYS
While there has been some improvement in the quality of incoming teachers in NYC and NYS, we still have a long way to go, as this study shows. Many schools of education simply need to be shut down:
How do you spell illiterate?
A majority of students training at scores of New York colleges to become teachers flunked a literacy test they have to pass to be licensed, new figures show.
The state Board of Regents for the first time is requiring would-be teachers to pass the Academic Literacy Skills exam.
It measures whether a prospective teacher can understand and analyze reading material and also write competently. The results show many don't belong anywhere near a classroom.
Majority of city's trainee teachers flunked literacy tests
http://nypost.com/2014/12/08/majority-of-citys-teacher-trainees-flunked-literacy-tests/
posted by Whitney Tilson at 12:24 AM
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