Note that California does NOT allow “credentialed” teachers from other states to teach in its schools.
The whole “credentialing” business is simply an elaborate scheme to keep teaching jobs in the hands of unionized and often underqualified “teachers”.
Instead of letting a full biology graduate teach biology (perhaps with one year of teacher training), we insist on hiring semi-qualified people with “degrees” in “education” from teacher colleges.
Teacher “colleges” mainly teach 1970′s leftwing politics and 1980′s psycho-babble. Substantive subjects like physics, mathematics, biology, history etc. are touched on in a few classes.
Anyone who has compared teachers qualified in their subject with their sorry “educator” colleagues knows that we are paying most “educators” far too much, and specialists far too little.
DISCLAIMER: There are, of course, exceptional teachers who make it their business to learn their subjects in depth. But our system should not be built on the expectation of miracles.
