When the most modern credential programs in the world seem to be turning out "incompetent teachers", as America's teachers' test scores "seem" to be telling the world, ( oh, that's right...they're not the teachers' test scores...it's their students' test scores...sometimes, the powers-that-be make me forget) why are THESE PROGRAMS not being sanctioned?
If a credential program passes a teacher after several semesters of education-specific classes and student teaching( as a medical school would "pass" a doctor through their courses), and the teacher turns out to be labeled as "incompetent" by the districts in which they are employed later on, why are the universities/colleges not being held accountable, as teachers are being held accountable when the students THEY work with for a year are deemed by administration to be "substandard"?
Instead of attempting to "standardize" the individual teachers, why not "standardize" the credential programs?
Make them use the same textbooks.
Have the universities require master teachers to be judged and trained in the same way.
These programs should be created and overseen by the same education tzars that are scrutinizing teachers, so these bureaucrats can kick out any apparent problems before they enter the workforce, to their hard-hearted hearts' content.
