I hate to discourage teachers (we need them!), but there's a problem in teacher education.
Well, guess which students earn the highest grades? It's future teachers. According to a new study by Cory Koedel published by the American Enterprise Institute:
Students who take education classes at universities receive significantly higher grades than students who take classes in every other academic discipline. The higher grades cannot be explained by observable differences in student quality between education majors and other students, nor can they be explained by the fact that education classes are typically smaller than classes in other academic departments.
This is despite the fact that education majors have the lowest high school grades and standardized test scores of all college students.
(Also on FtB)