The following letter was sent to State Rep Gerald Stebelton, Chairman of the House Education Committee today.   The author kindly allowed us to reprint a slightly edited version of it here at Plunderbund.

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Dear Representative Stebelton,

I am writing today partially because of your quote in today’s Dispatch where there was a discussion in which a group known as “Students First” claimed that a master’s degree mattered very little in the quality of instruction students receive and that after five years of teaching experience, except for high-level science and math, such experience in the classroom made little difference in the quality […]