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Originally Posted by Esoteric
Why the need for a quota? Why can't the best applicants be accepted? I just don't see the need of forcing admissions to a certain percentage of people based less of merit than their background.
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If I were running a teacher education program, I would be thinking not just about the intellectual and academic capacity of those recruited for the program but also about the composition of the cohorts that would be graduating each year, the value of those graduates to the industry and the impact I would expect them to have. In education, I think there is a particularly high value to having diversity in working professionals. A program that provides diversity while still maintaining good academic standards offers value that a program lacking diversity does not.
The problem of making a career in education more attractive to the very best candidates of all kinds and then retaining those people in the field is a related but separate issue.