Eliminate “Education” degrees and require a real degree in a real subject area.
Education degrees and Journalism degrees are totally meaningless.
Don’t forget Political Science degrees.
I agree. This alone would be a huge improvement.
It takes a certain type of personality to finish an "education" degree. An Ed degree is not something a normal, sensible, thinking person would every want to go through.
As it stands the education system is some kind of special employment project for people who would otherwise be unemployable. Spending years writing papers about Piaget's theories or cognitive psychology is of no relevance to the actual job of teaching. Having knowledge of the subject and skill to teach in class are not requirements.
The priority should be to get rid of these Ed degree people.