David Boies plans to strip teachers of due process rights state by state.

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91. Actually, many MEd's for Elementary and Middle school degrees have LOTS of new stuff...

Teachers have to take a mix of content courses (like Teaching Elementary Math or Children's Literature) along with courses in classroom management. Now ESOL endorsements, special education requirements, and technology skills are making the degrees so many hours that you could go to law school or something more lucrative than get a Masters.

High stakes testing is serious. Here in Florida, if your school's test scores are "low", the entire school's faculty are replaced!! I've seen it happen in a St. Petersburg elementary school in the last year! Most of the new "common core" tests are going to be challenging at all grade levels.

Classroom management is very complex, because it coexists with the administrative support and parental involvement. Even then, the best way to learn things like classroom management is to have supervision with experienced teachers - and almost no states support paid internships or extra pay for mentor teachers.

The best teachers have lots of skills that go way beyond content knowledge: communication skills, collaboration with others, planning, management, ethics, child advocacy, and even medical/counseling knowledge.