(From the Washington Post) The high unemployment rate has provided an unexpected boon for the
nation's public schools: legions of career-switchers eager to become
teachers.
Across the country, interest in teacher preparation programs geared
toward job-changers is rising sharply. Applications to a national
retraining program based in 20 cities rose 30 percent this year.
Enrollment in a career-switcher program for teachers at Virginia's
community colleges increased by 20 percent. And a Prince George's
County resident teacher program increased enrollment by 40 percent.
In many places, there are more converts to teaching than there are
jobs, except in hard-to-fill posts in science, math and special
education classes. But the wave of applicants might ease teacher
shortages expected to develop as 1.7 million baby boomers retire from
the public schools during the next decade.
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Categories: The Economy