New teachers are no longer equipped to teach students how to read and write, writes Kevin Donnelly.What is the best way to raise standards and ensure that students are well educated? Forget about more money and smaller classes. Why not – as George Will has argued in America’s Newsweek (January 16, 2006) – close the schools of education?Those schools, instead of giving beginning teachers a mastery of their subject matter, especially in areas such as primary literacy and numeracy, are more concern…
