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...Teacher burnout" indeed. What American education needs is more grit and determination and less weeping and wailing. Too many teachers have been coddled too long. Test every one of them. They should either measure up or flunk right out of the classroom...
...problem whose solution seems fairly straightforward is the matter of illiterate and uninformed teachers. Competency tests can-and should-be administered to screen out teachers, old as well as novice, who lack basic skills. Such screening would benefit pupils, but it would also put pressure on marginal colleges to flunk substandard students bound for a career in teaching. Indiana University Education Professor David Clark asks rhetorically: "Is it more important to make it easy for kids to reach professional level, or to have good teachers?" Pressure is also needed to ensure adequate funding for teacher training. As a typical example...
...tuition: lawyering. Nowadays, the anxiety about bar exams, which most states hold the last week in February as well as in July, is more acute than ever. Failure rates have been rising steadily, and this month more than one-third of the test takers can expect to flunk...
...exam horror stories are nothing new; one Illinois exam official recalls a fellow who failed 13 times before conceding defeat ("I think he now holds some kind of job with the state"). But as the tales of woe rise with the flunk rates, state examiners are taking heat from charges that the bar is scheming to limit the new lawyers admitted to practice...
...battery-powered engine, for example). What he really wants is a decent replacement for his air-conditioned, 8-m.p.g. '71 Chevy Impala. He was pretty disappointed when the so-called Moodymobile raised hopes and made headlines by getting from Florida to Washington, D.C., at 84 m.p.g. only to flunk its EPA emissions test...