High-performing graduates may make better teachers

From Teach for America - New York Times:

... a new study from a federal research center based at the Urban Institute in Washington suggests that the country might raise student performance through programs like Teach for America, a nonprofit group that places high-achieving college graduates in schools that are hard to staff. ... ¶ ...

... The results suggest that states that want students to do better in math and science need to focus recruitment on more selective colleges instead of on traditional teacher education programs, which are often little more than diploma mills.

Comments

[Harry Celine]

This has been well known for many, many years. It will never happen though, the teachers' unions and the educational establishment will never let it happen.

The educationists are quite fierce in defending the mediocrity of American education because they know they can't get a real job.