Why Ph.D.'s Should Teach in High Schools

Why Ph.D.'s Should Teach in High Schools 1

Randall Enos for The Chronicle

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Randall Enos for The Chronicle

As public schools enter the second half of the academic calendar, we should pause for a moment to consider how we, as a nation, recruit educators to provide quality classroom instruction. Time spent in instruction should—in theory, at least—prepare secondary-school students for what lies ahead, including the intellectual challenges of college and the working world. But in practice, that doesn't often happen. One little-recognized reason is the gulf between the people who teach the

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