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Unprepared new teachers remain a problem in Kentucky

Linda B. Blackford - Lexington Herald-Leader

December 18, 2013 03:17 PM

Students at Arlie Boggs Elementary School in Eolia and Letcher County Central High School illustrate the gains and losses in education since 1963 when a country lawyer's book riveted the nation's attention on the region and its struggles. Lexington Herald-Leader

Harry Caudill disliked many things about Kentucky's education system, but perhaps nothing raised his hackles like the state's teacher colleges.

"Our teacher training system is hopeless," the author of Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area wrote in a 1984 letter to Mary and Barry Bingham, then-owners of The Courier-Journal in Louisville.

Read more at the Herald-Leader: http://www.kentucky.com/2013/12/14/2989266/unprepared-new-teachers-remain.html