Scary

I had to read the following paragraph several times to make sure I was not misunderstanding what was said.

Dr. Martin Haberman, Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in a talk entitled Can Teacher Education Close the Achievement Gap? given to AERA on April 2, 2002, in New Orleans, said:

The most efficient ways of recruiting and selecting the wrong people at the initial teacher preparation level i.e. those who will never take positions teaching diverse children in poverty or who will quit or fail if they deign to try - are the criteria most commonly used: a composition on why I want to teach, G.P.A., letters of reference, a basic skills test, etc. These irrelevant criteria are frequently used in traditional and alternative certification programs. Actually, undergraduate GPA does predict. If it is extremely high in courses outside of education it predicts quitting and failure.

I urge you to read his entire speech!