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Gazette used claim that story rebutted
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Dec. 18, 2012 12:03 pm
In “Today's students, tomorrow's teachers” (Dec. 2), The Gazette casts doubt upon the “much maligned” statistic that U.S. public schools are recruiting teachers from the bottom two-thirds of college classes. But it is worth remembering that The Gazette's own editorial plea for reducing the power of public unions (“The Union Role,” Nov. 18) cites a far less plausible statistic - the claim that Iowa public school teachers are mostly “in the bottom 25 percent of their classes.”
If the latter claim is false, and I believe the “Today's students” piece has established that it is, The Gazette should apologize to its readers and to Iowa public school teachers for using it.
Chris McCord
Cedar Rapids
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