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Michael Zwaagstra: Teacher Education Courses Are Basically Useless

Michael Zwaagstra: Teacher Education Courses Are Basically Useless
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Summer’s over and the kids are back to school. As a teacher, one thing I’ve learned from my years in the classroom is that my education courses were mostly useless.

Michael Zwaagstra
Michael Zwaagstra
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Michael Zwaagstra is a public high school teacher and a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute. He is the author of “A Sage on the Stage: Common Sense Reflections on Teaching and Learning.”
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