How K-12 Gets Us The Students We Get

[Wahoo Redux]

And who prepares K-12 teachers?  Higher education.  What goes around comes around?

Let me correct that for you. It's not Higher Education that prepares (the vast majority) of K-12 teachers in the United States.

Rather, it's the increasingly compartmentalized, increasingly self-isolated, increasingly echo-chambered, Education College subset within Higher Education that prepares K-12 teachers in the United States. Other academic units within Higher Education (e.g. Math, English, History) have little to no control nor oversight over K-12 teacher training.

Are we back to this again?

[writingprof]

Which is why we in the USA give $35,000 starting salaries to K-12 teachers but six-figure salaries to corporate trainers who provide adult education to adult learners--we value adult education oh so much more.

Will you please name some of the corporate training firms of which you speak?  Also, are they hiring?  If this is really a thing, why is anyone still working at a college?