For-Profit Teacher Cert is Booming

for better or for worse

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/us/for-profit-certification-for-teachers-in-texas-is-booming.html?_r=1&ref=education

 

Although I am happy these professionals turned to teaching as their career choice, I am a bit concerned about the teaching strategies and the way they will deal with classroom management with children from poor districts. This is the difference that lies between a teacher who graduated from an education course as an undergraduate degree compared to those who took it after they have their own careers.