Wednesday, March 21, 2012

A million teachers may be on the march — out of the classroom - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

A million teachers may be on the march — out of the classroom - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: "The biggest red flag in the newly released Metlife survey of American teachers is this: There has been a 70% increase, over the past two years, in the number of teachers who are likely to leave the profession in the next five years (from 17% to 29%). This amounts to more than 1 million teachers who are preparing to march out of our classrooms. And this is in addition to the roughly 1 million teachers who are baby boomers approaching retirement age!

I wonder if the teaching profession as it is now being redesigned and redefined by school reformers is one that any of us would have chosen when we began teaching. And I wonder who would choose to teach in a school with a high level of poverty."

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