The colleges have been absorbed by Scottish universities and are now called teacher education institutions.
The main sticking points now are teacher evaluations, compensation and the rehiring of teachers who have been laid off.
One of those who took part in the programme, and is now a teacher, has spoken of how it helps young people.
Shamma, 47, is a composer, performer, poet and now a teacher.
The frail-looking, soft-spoken 70-year-old, who is now a teacher at the music academy, recounted having to flee overnight to Quetta, Pakistan, fearing for his life.
Right now a teacher must score the map by hand, but Stevens is close to finishing a piece of pattern-recognition software that electronically scores those maps.
Now, the teacher of this class instructed the students to ask me any question they wanted.
Ms. Phipps, now a photography teacher, remembers driving around with the band's then-manager in the early 1980s.
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Growing up, Selekman, now a retired teacher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, said his father physically brutalized him, and was even harder on the two older brothers next in age when they didn't do typical boy activities.
Having undergone Trial by Combat (well, ok, external assessment), I am now a fully qualified teacher.
"We need to get out and we need to get out now, " a teacher told the children.
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Lee has been practicing yoga since 1972 and now leads classes, teacher training sessions and special workshops worldwide.
Now, as a teacher in my eighth year in the classroom, I consider every day that I go to work a privilege.
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And in addition, I also want to acknowledge your outstanding principal, who has been here for 20 years -- first as a teacher, now as an outstanding principal -- Anita Berger.
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He said that until now, if a teacher was deemed incompetent, they were merely moved to another school because of the "complex and sometimes Byzantine" process of bringing a case against them.
The methods of Mr Kumon senior, a high school maths teacher, could now be included into the national curriculum in Japan.
According to John Geake, a former teacher who is now a cognitive neuroscientist, a shake-up in educational research is long overdue.
Courtney explained to me that she was once an elementary school teacher who was now working as a human resources representative for a pharmaceutical company.
Ms. Musgnug, now a 7th-grade teacher, once had a summer job at a bagel store where customers would come in asking her to scoop out bagels.
Ms. Edson, now a middle-school teacher in Atlanta, said she never was gunning specifically for her play to make it to Broadway, and she fondly recalled an early staging in a tiny New York theater.
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Graduates are now applying hand over fist to teacher-training courses, as other jobs are scarce, but the bonanza will not long outlast the recession.
Why not, for example, stipulate that future grants will only be made in states that permit student results to be linked to teacher evaluations--now barred by New York and California, among others--and that give kids the right to exit dreadful schools for better ones?
The teacher-friendly software is now used by 200 schools in 20 states.
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"I felt like there was no winning, like we were in a crazy dance, " says Ms. Brown, now 45 and a fifth-grade teacher.
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For example, ATEK literacy programme graduates, Wilfredo Apaza and Marisol Martinez, completed formal secondary education and teacher training courses and have now been recruited by a local bilingual school to teach religion and literacy in Quechua.
Now the plain fact is that pupil-teacher ratios have been falling throughout this century.
One head teacher said children with specific difficulties now concentrate more, read better, and their self-esteem has rocketed.
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Steve Crawford has been in education for 13 years as an elementary teacher, assistant principal and is now a principal.
Despite the pressure on schools to improve their exam results, up to now there have been few confirmed cases of teacher-led cheating.
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