 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources - Education - 1983 - 348 pages
...would like to address my comments to two particular items in the report. The Commission indicated that too many teachers are being drawn from the bottom...quarter of graduating high school and college students. There are numerous studies documenting the Commission's findings. However, on the positive side, there... | |
 | Susan P. Choy - Education - 1994 - 214 pages
...teacher work force. For instance, as reported by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, "Too many teachers are being drawn from the bottom quarter of graduating high school and college students."31 Other studies have raised similar concerns.32 Such studies have compared high school class... | |
 | Harold G. Vatter, John F. Walker - Business & Economics - 1995 - 524 pages
...teachers is on the whole unacceptable, and that a serious shortage of teachers exists in key fields. (1) Too many teachers are being drawn from the bottom...quarter of graduating high school and college students. (2) The teacher preparation curriculum is weighted heavily with courses in "educational methods" at... | |
 | Nancy E. Hoffman, W. Michael Reed, Gwen Socul Rosenbluth - Education - 1997 - 338 pages
...paralleling the tenor of Holmes's critique above, sharply criticized the occupation of teaching for "being drawn from the bottom quarter of graduating high school and college students," for suffering from training in a "curriculum [that] is weighted heavily with courses in 'educational... | |
 | David F. Labaree - Education - 1997 - 342 pages
...however, as the National Commission on Excellence notes in a familiar complaint about the present reality, "Too many teachers are being drawn from the bottom quarter of graduating high school and college students."41 Since the late nineteenth century, two important conditions have changed that help explain... | |
 | Yin Cheong Cheng, King Wai Chow, Kwok Tung Tsui - Education - 2001 - 570 pages
...solution. For example, ;is the authors of the, -1 Nation at Risk (1983) documented, many teachers were "being drawn from the bottom quarter of graduating high school and college students": many newly employed teachers were not qualified to teach their subjects: the teacher preparation curriculum... | |
 | Kenneth K. Wong, James W. Guthrie, Douglas N. Harris - Education - 2004 - 184 pages
...quality of teacher education at the nation's professional schools of education. The report stated, "Too many teachers are being drawn from the bottom...quarter of graduating high school and college students" (NCEE, 1983, p. 3). To encourage a more qualified group of students to enter the teaching professions,... | |
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The teacher preparation curriculum is weighted heavily with courses in "educational methods" at the expense of courses in subjects to be taught. 