How well are colleges preparing teachers for modern mathematics?
It is well known throughout most of the country that the public schools have had to make changes in the content of their courses, particularly offerings in mathematics, because of the vast increase in knowledge and changes in emphasis in various disciplines. The schools have been forced to retrain their teachers or make the teachers themselves responsible for securing additional education, so that the new content and the new approaches to teaching the new content, can be used successfully. Through in-service institutes and courses, teachers have, in many cases, been markedly helped in their desire to become up-to-date in the subject matter for which they are responsible. Unfortunately, it is necessary for schools to employ from 5 to 44 percent new staff members each year. The question arises, “Are the newcomers prepared in modern content to teach the up-dated courses now being offered in our schools?”