Teaching attracts better-qualified candidates

Dec. 12, 2007
Report says test scores are higher in recent years for prospective teachers.

Teaching is attracting better-qualified people than it did just a few years ago, according to a report from the Educational Testing Service. Prospective teachers who took state teacher licensing exams from 2002 to 2005 scored higher on SATs in high school and earned higher grades in college than their counterparts who took the exams in the mid-1990s, the report said.

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