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The Bozo Syndrome

by Lawrence Baines - April 06, 2003

This personal reflection describes how faculty in teacher education are often treated as second class citizens in colleges and universities. The author argues that higher education has no more vital role than that of preparing future teachers.

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Lawrence Baines Mesa State College E-mail Author Lawrence A. Baines is Associate Vice-President and Professor at Mesa State College. Most recently, he is the author of Teaching Adolescents to Write: The Unsubtle Art of Naked Teaching (2003, Allyn & Bacon) and How to Get a Life (forthcoming from Humanics). He writes on the language arts and the pressing issues facing public education today.

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