The NYT Continues to Push the Anti-Public School Line

by publishing an article about how stupid it is to have colleges of education and how it is better for education in general to have "alternative" ways to licensure, which translated means deskilling the teaching profession.

Which dovetails nicely with what the World Bank wants. Why have college graduates at all teaching kids? That's where it is headed if people don't wake the hell up:

In an ever-tightening job market, their graduates are competing with the products of alternative programs like Teach for America, which puts recent college graduates into teaching jobs without previous teaching experience or education coursework.

And this week, the New York State Board of Regents could deliver the biggest blow. It will vote on whether to greatly expand the role of the alternative organizations by allowing them to create their own master’s degree programs. At the extreme, the proposal could make education schools extraneous.

“In a lot of respects, what the Regents have done is the ghost of Christmas future,” said Arthur Levine, a former president of Teachers College at Columbia University and now president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. “Education schools are on the verge of losing their franchise.”

While alternative programs now operate in most states, only a few, including Rhode Island and Louisiana, allow these programs to effectively certify their own teachers.

It's the deliberate deskilling of teaching, and it is unacceptable given how many people with REAL backgrounds in education can't find jobs. This is all about hiring cheapo, replaceable teachers who have "careers" of no more than two to five years.