...teachers are being drawn from the bottom quarter of graduating high school and college students. o The teacher preparation curriculum is weighted heavily...at the expense of courses in subjects to be taught. A survey of 1,350 institutions training teachers indicated that 41 percent of the time of elementary...

...no objection, the bill was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: SJ RES. 138 Whereas the National Commission on Excellence in Education found...schools: Whereas numerous studies have found that the colleges of education now attract the least capable students, and those who go on to teaching jobs...

...teachers are being drawn from the bottom quarter of graduating high school and college students. The teacher preparation curriculum is weighted heavily...at the expense of courses in subjects to be taught. A survey of 1,350 institutions training teachers indicated that 41 percent of the time of elementary...

...Commission report found that teacher preparation programs need substantial improvement and that the teacher preparation curriculum is weighted heavily...at the expense of courses in subjects to be taught. As a result, many teachers have not mastered the basic skills In reading, writing, math, and other...

...teachers are being drawn from the bottom quarter of graduating high school and college students. The teacher preparation curriculum is weighted heavily...at the expense of courses in subjects to be taught. A survey of 1,350 institutions training teachers indicated that 41 percent of the time of elementary...

...skills. The second area that I would like to address more specifically is the Commission indicates that teacher preparation curriculum is weighted heavily...in educational methods, at the expense of courses and subjects to be taught. In most secondary teacher preparation programs across the Nation, there...

...teachers are being drawn from the bottom quarter of graduating high school and college students. (2) The teacher preparation curriculum is weighted heavily...at the expense of courses in subjects to be taught. A survey of 1,350 institutions training teachers indicated that 41 percent of the time of elementary...

...of graduating high school and college students," for suffering from training in a "curriculum [that] is weighted heavily with courses in 'educational methods'...the expense of courses in subjects to be taught," for unacceptably low salaries, for lack of autonomy, and for staffing the most important courses in...

...employed teachers were not qualified to teach their subjects: the teacher preparation curriculum was "weighted heavily with courses in 'educational methods'...at the expense of courses in subjects to be taught" (littp://\vw\v.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/findings.htrnl). In view of the hard evidence, some states demanded...

...elementarv or secondary schools (Davis. 1964. table 1.4, p. 13). Their preparation is heavily weighted with courses in educational methods at the expense of courses in subjects to be taught; teachers have little influence in such critical professional decisions as textbook selection, and,...