If You Say It They Will Come, Part Deux

It’s a grim reality, but educators must face this fact, says Southington school Superintendent Harvey Polansky: It’s harder to get into the University of Connecticut’s undergraduate teacher preparation program than it is law school.

So says this article (thx to reader DP).

Perhaps, but that would make U-Conn’s program pretty exceptional. US News ranks its law school 49th in the nation and it has an acceptance rate of 20 percent. Meanwhile, while data isn’t available on the undergraduate education program, the graduate program at U-Conn has a master’s level acceptance rate of 86 percent and a Ph.D. acceptance rate of 31 percent.

Part one here.