Earning a Masters Degree in Education makes teachers worse at their job

That's an old study... I'd love to see an updated study on teachers and students in North Carolina considering that so many of the students now apparently aren't English speakers.

Missouri requires their teachers to get Masters degrees to renew their teaching credentials.

Then the schools pay a portion of their teacher’s masters degrees so that they can they pay them more money as teachers.

Huge giveaway to the education colleges with no data behind it.

When I started my third career teaching math the principle urged me to get a MSed asap so I could qualify to teach advanced math classes.
So I enrolled & after the first couple of classes I knew I would just be a sore thumb in the class. There’s no way I could have pretended to be a regular student absorbing all that crap.

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Math teachers should have degrees in mathematics. Science teachers should have Biology/Chemistry degrees. The education degree is a cancer on society.

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Exactly. Instead of focusing on the subjects they teach, grad-level courses are more focused on how to use soft approaches like empathetic teaching (also known as empathy-centered teaching, compassionate teaching, or trauma-informed teaching) to teach from what the creators of these things believe are "more enlightened" ways of teaching over "sage on a stage".

This change from focusing on more specialization in the subject(s) to an attempt at a wider ability to disperse knowledge has necessarily lowered the standards.

Focusing on greater mass appeal means a trade-off on quality. This isn't just for education but for just about everything in life and the understanding of that as a truism versus the doe-eyed optimism which says "we just need a better system and everything can be equally great" is the core difference between how Right and Left view things.