Aids in making a smooth transition for education majors from classwork to first year teaching.

For the final semester, all education majors are sent out to work in schools for teacher training.

And education majors who become career high school teachers have College Board scores a full hundred points below those who never teach at all.

An endorsement is also available for education majors wishing to teach business courses in secondary schools.

Education endorsements are provided for education majors as well.

In recent years, 40 states have adopted programs that allow non education majors to be certified as teachers after a few weeks or months of training.

There are sports management courses and concentrations, as well as an array of offerings to physical education majors.

But teachers and friends described her as a friendly, hard-working physical education major who had shown no signs of abnormal behavior or occult interests.

They say that since most education majors in college are white, the pool of teacher applicants is predominantly white.

Traditionally, education majors have done their student teaching, usually for a semester, only at the end of their undergraduate training.