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From: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Ph.D.'s and Teaching
Message-ID: <2062@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 19:35:58 GMT
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In article <844@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> windley@iris.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley) writes:


>I know someone is going to say that the problem is not the education
>that these people receive, but the lack of money.  Certainly more
>money could be spent on teacher's salarys, but I beleive an even
>larger problem is that most secondary school teachers don't know their
>subject.  A chemistry teacher in high school should be a chemistry
>major who took a couple of education courses, not an education major
>who took a couple of chemistry courses.  

    Ah, but you see the problem does come back to money.  You see that
Chemistry teacher may also be teaching Physics or some other science.
Most high schools can not afford to hire subject matter experts for each
and every subject that is taught.  Generally you find people within certain
departments will have to handle several specialties.  More money would enable
just what you are asking for to take place.  More teachers could be hired and
they could specialize.


     I believe that I read in the past year or so, that the New York school
system has hired some people who are subject matter experts (Masters Degree
in their field) and are seeing how they work out.  Anybody heard anything
about this and how it has compaired with the standard way of hiring Education
Degreed people?


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