If you read College Insurrection, you’ll be just shocked by this news.

Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix reports.

Report Sharply Rebukes Universities Nationwide For Shoddy Teacher Prep

Universities across the nation were sharply rebuked for shoddy teacher training in a massive report put out Tuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality.

Dubbed “unprecedented” by the council, the report surveyed 1,130 colleges’ and universities’ teacher training programs and concluded they represent “an industry of mediocrity.”

“(They churn) out first-year teachers with classroom management skills and content knowledge inadequate to thrive in classrooms with ever-increasing ethnic and socioeconomic student diversity,” the report stated. “The evaluations provide clear and convincing evidence … that a vast majority of teacher preparation programs do not give aspiring teachers adequate return on their investment of time and tuition dollars.”

The 112-page report highlights problems such as:

* Regarding STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) preparation, a critical area for our nation, some 70 percent of undergraduate elementary programs do not require teacher candidates to take even a single science course.

* As we consistently found in most standards, graduate programs overlook the content knowledge, or lack thereof, of incoming candidates, offering one-year programs regardless of content knowledge deficits.

*Classroom management is a skill few novice teachers possess.

* It is far too easy to get into a teacher preparation program. Just over a quarter of programs restrict admissions to students in the top half of their class, compared with the highest-performing countries, which limit entry to the top third.

* Fewer than one in nine elementary programs and just over one-third of high school programs are preparing candidates in content at the level necessary to teach the new Common Core State Standards now being implemented in classrooms in 45 states and the District of Columbia.