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Old 05-25-08, 12:37 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Re: How do we fix education in this country?

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Originally Posted by aegyptos View Post
I think there was a change in the way teachers are prepared and in the ideas that were put into teacher candidates head's that led to the poor results we have been experiencing.
Nope, it was integration. Its not like teachers were all of a sudden wired up differently. What happened then is that impoverished districts no longer were segregated, and thus the problems we had ignored all the way up until the 60s and 70s suddenly became apparent.
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