Arthur Levine, president of Teachers College. More graduates seek teaching careers. Connecticut approves twelve. They want vouchers. Cleveland tussles with takeover.
Teaching is a career where they feel they can make a difference in their community.
U.S. Ed Sec Richard Riley said in his State of American Education adress that the nation will need at least 2 million teachers to be hired in the next decade to replace the generation of teachers ready to retire. The paper cites Old Dominion U's Military Career Transition Program, which since 1988 has transferred 525 retired or downsized military personnel into teaching. However, much of the idealism about teaching erodes when the new teachers enter the classroom and realize that classroom management sometimes takes precedence over teaching subject matter. What we're experiencing now is a huge surge of people interested in teaching. The overriding theme .