March 12, 1999

Higher Standards for Schoolteachers Will Hurt Diversity, Researchers Say

By JULIANNE BASINGER

States that raise standards for passing teacher-licensure tests will end up with teachers of greater academic ability, but the number and diversity of those teachers will diminish, according to researchers who presented their findings last month at the annual conference of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

Three researchers from the Educational Testing Service and ACT examined the SAT

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