American Teachers & the Graduate Record Exam

Each year, more than 275,000 graduating college students and college graduates take the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), of which 30,250 are engineering majors, 24,000 are physical science majors, 23,100 are education majors.  57.6% or 17,424 of the engineering majors, 47.8% or 11,472 of the physical science majors, and 6.5% or 1,501 of the education majors score above 700 on the GRE Quantitative portion of the test.  Thus, compared to education majors, 19x as many engineering and physical science majors score over 700, while 71.5% or 16,516 of the education majors score lower than 490.

Educators complain that teachers' salaries are so low that the best qualified graduates go into fields which have higher incomes than teachers, which suggests that only a small percentage of the 1,501 who score over 700 become teachers.  Yet it is precisely this academic skill which is crucial to being able to teach children math and science, two subjects of extreme importance in this technological era, and in which the US scored very close to, if not right at, last in the world.

See also ftp://etsis1.ets.org/pub/gre/254665.pdf

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