Teacher Workforce Aging Rapidly

Fact #443:  Forty percent of the current public school teaching force expects not to be teaching five years from now. (Source: Profile of Teachers in the U.S. 2005)

Fact #444: The K-12 teaching force is aging rapidly.  The proportion of K – 12 teachers who are 50 years of age and older has risen from one in four (24 percent) in 1996 to 42 percent in 2005.  (Source: Profile of Teachers in the U.S. 2005)

Fact #445: The proportion of the K – 12 public school teaching force has 25 or more years of teaching experience has doubled in the last 15 years – from 12 percent in 1990 to 20 percent in 1996 to 27 percent in 2005.  (Source: Profile of Teachers in the U.S. 2005)

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Ira S Wolfe

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  1. Hope and Optimism; Your All Gonna F-ing Die November 6, 2005 at 3:21 pm -

    …and we’ll get the ethical (loyal, no matter what) teachers who will teach the dishonest non-theory of “intelligent design” for those misleaders who cannot practice it considering Iwreck, Katrina, Rita, and the ham-handed mishandling (got caught) of Treasongate.