As Teacher Shortage Looms, States Get ‘Creative’ By Lowering Qualifications

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As Teacher Shortage Looms, States Get ‘Creative’ By Lowering Qualifications

Jeremy Adams

Lowering the qualifications for aspiring teachers is understandable in the era of profound teacher shortages. However, the long-term effect will be a generation of classroom instruction that is banal, utterly incapable of inspiring, uplifting, and rousing our students to look up at the peaks of human possibility.

This had to be the most predictable public policy crisis in a generation.

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