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...they pass they are licensed, but only for a probationary period of up to two years. During that time they will have to prove their classroom skills to the satisfaction of a panel of professional educators in order to remain in teaching. One aim of Oklahoma's internship program is to force the educators at state teachers colleges to improve their own techniques lest their graduates fail the licensing test. Similarly stiff internship requirements have been adopted in Georgia and Massachusetts...
...toughest state teacher licensing program so far has already received preliminary approval by New York's powerful Board of Regents. The New York program requires an annual review of the performance of all public school teachers, as well as a one-year internship in the classroom before a new teacher is granted a license. It also provides for a new statewide teaching board to oversee professional performance, as medical and other professional boards...
Doob agrees, remembering she first became aware of sexism when an internship she nabbed in New York City fostered ill-will from her male contemporaries. Doob and Trower believe that the system has evolved to allow mothers to pursue their careers. Doob cites split hospital internships that allow men and women time off for family responsibilities...
...argument that doctors have a right to charge high fees because of the "long years of learning and not earning, the killing hours and loss of contact with family," etc., is rubbish. At no time during premed, medical school, internship or residency did someone put a gun to my head and force me to continue...
...hour weeks that many say they put in, and to compensate them for bearing the responsibility of making life-and-death decisions. Says one Boston specialist with an international clientele: "Remember that when a doctor has finished seven or eight years of schooling, two or three years of internship, two or three years of specialization, by then he is married, starting a family and an expensive practice, and is at his peak outlay. Consider the long years of learning and not earning, the killing hours and loss of contact with family." A few doctors indeed hint that they are underpaid?...