high school teachers

[Julia Frugoli]

>To:            womenbio at net.bio.net
>From:          maryp at teosinte.agron.missouri.edu (Mary Polacco)
>Subject:       Re: high school teachers
>Date:          20 Mar 1996 12:47:06 -0800
>
>In the US, a masters is almost de rigeur for high school teaching.
>PhD's often get hired by the better
>school districts, at least that has happened in Columbia, MO
>for at least one PhD tired of the hovering-in-place postdoc route.
>
Maybe true now, in mIssouri, but I think most of the people teaching 
high school science DON'T have masters.  Here in Texas, I can't think of 
any who do.  Back in Massachusetts, none of my high school teachers did 
and in Vermont where my children attend a private academy because the 
public high school is so abysmal, only 1 of the science teachers has a 
masters degree, and it's not in science.  What do you base this on?


Julia Frugoli
Dartmouth College

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