"We find stark inequalities in access to the highest quality teachers resulting in poorer pupils being taught by poorer quality teachers," the report argues.
Respondents across cadres emphasized that rural schools had poor-quality teachers, poor infrastructure, did not teach English and did not provide a healthy environment for children's development.
The irony of Sheila Schwartz's Aug. 6 Op-Ed article lamenting the poor quality of teacher-education candidates is that she makes the same kinds of arguments that incompetent teachers everywhere make.
But too much Turkish education is of poor quality.One teacher who recently moved schools, from a town in Anatolia to a village 15km away, was shocked by the difference in standards.
Since the early 1980's, when a presidential commission and the Carnegie Foundation declared a crisis of confidence in the public schools, attention has increasingly shifted to the poor quality of many teachers and of teacher education programs as sources of what the commission called "a rising tide of mediocrity".
These Committees levy fees on families in order to operate schools, creating a barrier to access for the poorest, but inadequate to retain quality teachers.
The process of sorting students by their achievement level has the consequence of exposing minority and poor students to lower quality teachers and less-resourced classmates.
The region also faces a poor quality of education due to a shortage of teachers, low teacher salaries and limited training and development opportunities for teachers.
The clear reason behind this is the choice of streams, lack of support from families or teachers and the poor quality resources.
Other significant findings include the fact that there are 5.8 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 who need education assistance, meaning they have trouble getting to school because of danger along the way, are not learning due to poor quality education or a lack of teachers, and are at extreme risk of dropping out, among other factors.
