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...What the teacher might have taught her class, had they been willing to listen, is that American education in the '70s is in deep trouble. And almost by definition, any problem with public education is a big one. No where are the difficulties more acute than in the 25,300 public high schools, junior and senior, in the U.S., which enroll 19 million stu dents and carry a million teachers on their payrolls. To maintain the U.S.'s vast public education establishment, from elementary schools to colleges, taxpayers will spend $144 billion this year ? a 152% increase over...
Others question teacher quality. As the profession has lost social prestige, it has attracted more recruits who are themselves only average students. Says James Koerner, author of The Miseducation of American Teachers: "Teachers are not trained as adequately as the public thinks they are." Typically, over half the courses an education student takes are in methodology and not m the subjects he will teach...
...more constructive approach, many educators feel, would be to concentrate on teacher training?deleting some of the methodology instruction in teachers' colleges and adding courses in the teacher's future subject. Says Howe: "Any school worth its salt also needs in-house retraining of teachers rather than sending them off to local teachers' colleges for a course and then raising their salaries...
...Teacher troubles. Despite the spreading taxpayer revolt, teachers continue to close schools all over the country to dramatize their pay demands. They have struck in 93 communities?from Franklin, Mass., to Fremont, Calif?since January...
...march through a maze," counters Harvey Scribner, former New York City chancellor of schools and now a professor at the University of Massachusetts School of Education. "Classrooms should be opened up." Meanwhile parents blame teachers, teachers blame parental permissiveness' and educators point to society as the culprit. "Everyone is trying to pass the buck," says Grace Baisinger, president of the national Parent-Teacher Association...