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Sure, it is just that the fundamental decisions will be coerced.....Really, the biggest reform, after vouchers and charter schools, would be relaxing teacher certification requirements. There are plenty of liberal arts graduates who would find teaching a suitable occupation for the first several years of their career life, and perhaps longer, if they did not have to spend an additional six months to a year taking education courses in order to be certified. Also, education should always be a minor to a substantive major. There is not enough content in education courses to make them either useful or intellectually stimulating, from examples I have seen, and too frequently the minor course work on the subject areas to be taught later is shallow. The single most useful thing that education majors speak of is the apprenticeship in a classroom, and most think it should be lengthened. This should be the only requirement for certification. Of course, the education schools would probably empty out, as prospective teachers majored in math, science, English, history, and so on, but if those who minored in education were given a slight preference, they might preserve education departments...... |
