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U.S. News Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Teacher

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I don't see how anybody could call this book the Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Teacher. The subject matter is quite narrow. It really doesn't say much about earning a teaching credential. This book is for people wanting to get a Masters Degree in teaching. If you only want a teaching credential, and don't want to spend the extra time and money right away getting a Master's degree, this book is almost useless. Most of the book is a nationwide directory of colleges where you can earn a Master's Degree in Education. Also, this book covers the whole country, so it doesn't say much about how to become a teacher in any particular state. Every state has a different system. If you want to earn a Master's Degree in teaching, this book will probably be helpful to you, but it's definitely not the Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Teacher.

Being interested in becoming a teacher, I ordered this book, but I suppose I didn't look too carefully (or should have looked more carefully), as this book is geared more toward college graduates who are looking to go to graduate school for an education degree. There's some interesting info for about 50 or so pages at the beginning, to give a background on being a teacher, and some indexes of payscales per state, but the majority of the book lists graduate schools of education per state.