‘Qualified’ Teachers: A Victory on Paper?
When the deadline for outfitting every public school classroom with a “highly qualified” teacher rolls around at the end of the 2005-06 school year, many states are likely to claim they’ve met it. But the larger question is whether anything will be much different from three years ago, before that standard in the No Child Left Behind Act kicked in.
U.S. Department of Education officials and other proponents of the federal law contend it is making the national teacher corps stronger. Others are not so sure.
“I think on paper we will look like we are more qualified than we were before, and maybe we will be,” said Deborah A. Kasak, the director of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform, which represents groups concerned with education at...
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