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Date: Jul 16, 2006

C.L.--Low pay leading to vacancies

Date: Jul 16, 2006

Where do all of those education majors go that I watch cross the graduation stage, a large number graduating with honors? One would think that they checked out the average income for teachers when they adopted the major.

Date: Jul 16, 2006

Cossack wrote:

Where do all of those education majors go that I watch cross the graduation stage, a large number graduating with honors? One would think that they checked out the average income for teachers when they adopted the major.

Cossack-

There was a time in America when teaching was considered a serious profession, and starting pay at the BA level reflected that. The degree program in the 1950s and 1960s was as rigorous as any other. We have seen a de-professionalization of the teaching profession in the past few decades (I fear that many in society view teachers as glorified day care workers), and part of this decline can be attributed to the influence of Colleges of Education--whose existence depends on the production of large numbers of graduates. Good teachers often stay on and eventually achieve reasonable compensation by earning soft masters and doctoral degrees. Other talented and dedicated young people teach for awhile and then go on to other professions. The poor to mediocre teachers who stick around do so for a pay check that exceeds their talents...

Date: Jul 16, 2006

On reason teaching was a serious profession was that it was one of the few open to women, and academically talented women went into it. Today, young women have many more options. The girl math whiz can work for NASA or MIT instead of teaching algebra. (We've said all this before.)

I'm not advocating a return to those days by any means.

Date: Jul 16, 2006

Fascinating article in today's online Times-Picayune, about displaced students from New Orleans. The site is nola.com, the article is called "Learning from Katrina" -- many of these students have entered a new world of clean, well-supplied, orderly schools.

One teacher who has relocated is amazed at the resources she has available at her new school -- in Natchez, MS.

Date: Jul 16, 2006

LVN, pt 2 wrote:

Fascinating article in today's online Times-Picayune, about displaced students from New Orleans. The site is nola.com, the article is called "Learning from Katrina" -- many of these students have entered a new world of clean, well-supplied, orderly schools. One teacher who has relocated is amazed at the resources she has available at her new school -- in Natchez, MS.

T.P.--LEARNING FROM KATRINA
An unexpected upside to the hurricane is emerging for some displaced families: Children are discovering education opportunities they never imagined.
Sunday, July 16, 2006
By Rob Nelson
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1153038168164970.xml&coll=1

Date: Jul 16, 2006

What else is new? We have lived with this for years and years.

Date: Jul 16, 2006

Please folks, please do not post live links and do not click on live links. This is how we think we got hacked. Post the link, let people copy and paste it into their address bar.

Date: Jul 16, 2006

moderator--thank you! i hope some of the well meaning posters like reporter note your comment.

Date: Jul 17, 2006

MODERATOR wrote:

Please folks, please do not post live links and do not click on live links. This is how we think we got hacked. Post the link, let people copy and paste it into their address bar.

Noted.