<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/2de6d280-887b-4fc4-8bd1-b09a60f96277/6F8620E7-3F39-4308-BAF1-F65D2D42751C/" 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/" href="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/teaching-no-fallback-career/" 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/"><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/"><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, in public schools, job security in the form of tenure after three years. 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/6F8620E7-3F39-4308-BAF1-F65D2D42751C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.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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