Posted on 07/01/2022 4:41:41 AM PDT by karpov
A college degree is just about essential to make a lot of money in a career, but what if you don't want to work all that hard to get a diploma?
Slackers wanting to earn the country's easiest college major, should major in education.
It's easy to get "A's" if you're an education major. Maybe that's why one out of 10 college graduates major in education
Research over the years has indicated that education majors, who enter college with the lowest average SAT scores, leave with the highest grades. Some of academic evidence documenting easy A's for future teachers goes back more than 50 years!
The latest damning report on the ease of majoring in education comes from research at the University of Missouri, my alma mater. The study, conducted by economist Cory Koedel shows that education majors receive "substantially higher" grades than students in every other department.
Koedel examined the grades earned by undergraduates during the 2007-2008 school year at three large state universities that include sizable education programs -- University of Missouri, Miami (OH) University and Indiana University. The researcher compared the grades earned by education majors with the grades earned by students in 12 other majors including biology, economics, English, history, philosophy, mathematics, chemistry, psychology and sociology. Education majors enjoyed grade point averages that were .5 to .8 grade points higher than students in the other college majors. At the University of Missouri, for instance, the average education major has a 3.80 GPA versus 2.99 GPA (science, math, econ majors), 3.12 GPA (social science majors) and 3.16 GPA (humanities majors).
Why should we care if education majors, who must survive classes like "kiddie lit," coast through school? For starters, easy grading can prompt students to slack off.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
I took an Education Course as an elective to my Masters requirements.
When I got my grade the professor said, “You’re not an Education Major are you? I figured that since you are the only one that attended every class.”
One of the two most popular majors at Texas public universities is Distributed Studies. The other is Psychology. Neither prepare you for anything other than more of the same.
The sad part when I graduated ( mid 80's), if I wanted to teach in the public schools, I was not "qualified" - no education degree. However, the ones that dropped out of Calculus and Physics, were more "qualified" to teach Physics and Math than I was.
So did mine. That's my point.
Teachers who are expected to teach kids older than 5th graders SHOULD be expected to know a lot. They SHOULD have a grounding in serious math, science, etc.
For high school, I would do away with the concept of "ed major" entirely except for maybe a one semester summer "boot camp" in ed processes and procedures, and recruit from people who have degrees in the subjects they expect to teach.
If you are qualified to teach chemistry or history in the local community college, then you should be qualified to teach it in high school. I would go as far as if someone successfully taught a teach as an instructor in college, then he gets his high school license automatically.
I’ve often said that if I were Czar, one of the first things I would do is shut down all the Colleges of Education.
Heck, we used to do just fine teaching elementary school with high school grads, arguably better than we do now.
When we taught elementary school with high school grads, these were mostly women of intelligence from the middle
class who wanted a job they could do until marriage. Or they were older women whose kids had grown and left.
Teaching worked out if and only if the teachers were drawn from the upper IQ range. That is not happening now.
True. They had much less opportunity in the business world in that time frame as well.
And I think we both know other reasons IQ is an issue now . . .
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