Preparation and support faulty for many California teachers

12-17-2009

By Adolfo Guzman-Lopez/KPCC

Many teachers in public high schools aren’t getting the preparation and support they need to carry out school district-mandated reforms, according to a study commissioned by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning. Cliques aside, it used to be that two kinds of students predominated at high schools: the college-bound, and everyone else. "Now, with the economies changing, everybody needs to be prepared for post-secondary education," said Patrick Shields, of the nonprofit Center for Education Policy, the group that conducted the research. "That doesn’t mean everybody has to go to UC Berkeley." But Shields says many should attend community colleges to learn technical and analytical skills. That’ll improve their lifetime earnings and the state’s prospects for strengthening its workforce. (more...)

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