In todays Wall Street Journal, Jan 28, 1998, page A18, center right of the
page is an article entitled:
"The truth behind the 'teacher shortage'"
by C. Emily Feistritzer (said to be the president of the National Center
for Education Information in DC).
The article goes on to say that the scaremongering that we have a general
teacher shortage is overblown and she has statistics to present a picture
that teacher production (defined as B.S. graduates in Education) is way
ahead of the actual teacher job market.
For anyone who is interested in the teacher alternative career, you might
have a look at this article.
My own "take" on the teacher situation is that I have heard that there is
a shortage of sorts in the math-science areas. Getting credentials in some
school districts can be done otherwise you are essenntially a temporary
with an uncertain career.
The other problem with teaching (and we're talking about primarily at the
HS level) is that in a lot of areas you're going to have unteachable
students and you could get killed or badly hurt through physical violence
from those who bring weapons to school. In areas where you have good kids
coming to school and the environment might be safer to work in, then the
teaching jobs (or so I've heard) are much harder to get.
Art Sowers
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