Today’s moderator: Maureen Downey
Maureen Downey has written about local, state and federal education policy at the AJC for 12 years. She’s also taught college classes in mass communications and journalism. However, she’s learned more about schools from having four children in them.
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A new rating system gives low marks to many teacher training programs in Georgia and around the country, contending new teachers arrive in their classrooms unprepared for the challenges. I write about teacher training and where it falls short. Readers also offer their views on teacher training programs. In a guest column, two college professors defend the arts in the wake of a remark by the Georgia chancellor that drama degrees do not lead to jobs.
Learning on the job by Maureen Downey
Guest columnists:
The world needs poets, too by Randy Hendricks and Tommy Cox
