Educators in the US are mostly boorishly uneducated. A Masters in Teaching is a professional degree (it exists to get the holder an automatic raise), and even

Educators in the US are mostly boorishly uneducated. A Masters in Teaching is a professional degree (it exists to get the holder an automatic raise), and even by those low standards it's at the very bottom of the barrel, even lower than the average MBA. A doctorate in education is closer to a normal masters degree.