Teachers' Literacy Skills Akin to Other Professionals', ETS Says
Educators have long suffered the biting witticism, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach." But new research shows that, at least by one measure, teachers hold their own against people in other lines of work.
The Princeton, N.J.-based Educational Testing Service carried out the analysis for the study "How Teachers Compare: The Prose, Document, and Quantitative Skills of America's Teachers," using the results of a 1992 federal survey of adult literacy.
Based on results from more than 26,000 individuals, the ETS report defines three areas of ability: "prose literacy"--the ability to use and understand information from texts, such as news stories and fiction; "document literacy"--the ability to locate and use information in everyday materials; and...
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