A total of 31.3% of education majors scored 390 or less on the verbal test (a score of 390 was around the 28th or 29th percentile) and 15.6% scored 390 or less on the quantitative section (12th percentile)
Yikes.
I hope some of these people are merely majoring in education and will not become teachers.
I think average scores are...okay, for an elementary school teacher. I'd like to see higher for middle and high school, though. Well below average--that's a problem.
I have a Facebook acquaintance who teaches middle-school science. I am not kidding when I say that I have almost never seen a correctly spelled and punctuated status from her. ("I hate these kids there drivin me crazy oh wellll there gunna be gone soon!") I admit I find this scary and depressing. I was shocked to learn she had become a teacher (we worked in a kitchen together years ago) because, well, she really did seem pretty slow.