<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e3d72c35-63f8-44a5-ace5-92b03c45eeee/2F753C48-4483-4228-956D-5C4029F36B64/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/teaching-no-fallback-career/?emc=eta1" href="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/teaching-no-fallback-career/?emc=eta1" style="font-size: 11px;">roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/teaching-no-fallback-career/?emc=eta1"><H2 class="entry-title">Teaching: No ‘Fallback’ Career</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/teaching-no-fallback-career/?emc=eta1"><P>As private sector professionals lose their jobs or suffer cutbacks in pay and benefits, more and more of them are thinking about second careers. <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/weekinreview/12lohr.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=lohr%20week%20in%20review&st=cse">Public service is suddenly popular with all generations.</A> Teaching may not pay a lot, but it comes with relatively good benefits and, after three years, job security in the form of tenure. But this fallback fantasy may be unrealistic, despite reports of a <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/education/07teacher.html?scp=1&sq=sam%20dillon%20teacher%20shortage&st=cse">possible teacher shortage</A> in the next several years. Does such a shortfall really exist? What does it take to become a teacher, let alone a good one?</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2F753C48-4483-4228-956D-5C4029F36B64/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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