The dean of a major college of education says “it is misguided to pay teachers more for earning a master’s degree.”

When I was deputy state superintendent in Michigan my boss, Tom Watkins referred to our colleges of education as the “weakest link” in education. As I read Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s remarks made at Teachers College, Columbia University on October 22, 2009, I thought he was heading in the same direction—and for a while [...]