Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Does obtaining a Master’s Degree in Teaching make you a better teacher, or does it make you a better credentialed public employee union member now entitled to change salary lanes? Is a $2,500 tax credit good public policy?
Joe Doakes
Rhetorical question, right?
The purpose of college education departments is to separate the chaff from the wheat. They keep the chaff and throw out the wheat. At the post-graduate level this process become industrial.
The number of people with graduate degrees in education keeps increasing, while students get dumber.
But of course corelation is not causation.
MO, sounds like Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy, to wit, In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.