Elementary teachers who don’t like math and science or who are unqualified to teach the material are contributing to eroding U.S. technical dominance, Patrick Barkey, director of Economic and Policy Studies at Ball State University, warned in a recent column. “…as a group, those who pursue elementary education as a career today tend to be the academically least gifted, poorest-performing students on campus,” Barkey said. The upshot is that many teachers aren’t passing on enthusiasm for the fields at an age when students are impressionable.
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