Two persistent problems beset American schools.
First, teachers must leave the classroom and become administrators or counselors to earn above the standard teacher salary.
Second, colleges of education can’t prepare new teachers nearly as well as an apprenticeship under a veteran teacher who has consistently demonstrated mastery of the craft. Thankfully, K-12 education can rework how it prepares new teachers and rewards quality veteran educators to solve both problems simultaneously.
Let’s begin with the second problem.
A common complaint among teachers is how far removed the professors in the education programs are from the K-12 classroom. Most haven’t been classroom teachers in at least a decade and have forgotten what that was like. Some have never been a teacher at all. They found that many lofty ideas and great-sounding theories fail and crumble in a room…
