There is a consensus among the nation's collegiate educators and employers that students are not as prepared as they should be for the challenges that await them after high school. For this reason, many schools are in the process of implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), which are designed to equip pupils with the knowledge and skills they need.
While many students leave their classrooms every day with a lack of valuable skills, too many of their teachers are coming into school each day unprepared, according to a new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality.
For the report, titled "Teacher Prep Review 2013," researchers examined data from 1,130 institutions that train 99 percent of the country's traditionally trained educators. What the Council found was these schools are producing teachers who are unfit to manage their classrooms and provide their students with the knowledge necessary to thrive.
According to the report's findings, fewer than one in nine elementary training programs are preparing future educators to provide instruction aligned with the CCSS. While this is troubling news, it is nothing education officials like Terry Grier, superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, are not already aware of.
"Teacher preparation needs to be reformed from top to bottom," Grier told Reuters.
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