This is nothing more than legalizing degree mills:
Currently, programs like Teach for America, which recruits heavily among recent college graduates, and New York City Teaching Fellows, which attracts young professionals seeking to change careers, must become partners with education schools. Participants begin teaching almost immediately, pursing a master’s degree in their free time at the education schools.
Under the pilot, the Board of Regents will invite groups like Teach for America to create their own master’s programs. The programs would need to have a strong emphasis on practical teaching skills, a nod to criticisms that traditional education schools spend too much time on theory. The Board of Regents would actually award the degree to the teacher, who would commit to a high-needs school for four years.
But some deans of education schools expressed caution about the board’s vote. “I have serious concerns about separating the craft of teaching from the knowledge base of teaching, and I think the regents are making a mistake in allowing the craft to be more important,” said James J. Hennessy, dean of the graduate school of education at Fordham, which has partnerships with both Teach for America and New York City Teaching Fellows.
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I suspect a lot of these phony "graduates" will be public school principals. God forbid.
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