Improving Teacher Quality

Submitted by Susie (not verified) on February 17, 2008 - 22:10.

I have been teaching for over 25 years and the most important quality that I see in the "great" teachers is passion. We can't test passion. We can't tell how much passion a teacher has for her students and her subject by looking at her GPA. I wholeheartedly agree that we need the Praxis test and a GPA standard, but how many teachers, especially minorities, are we chasing away?

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