Carney's Commentary

Education Week, February 23, 2005 (Vol.24, No.24)

p.3, Educators who move on, especially from poor, urban schools are not necessarily the best and the brightest according to a Texas study of same.

p.3, Alternative-certification programs are attracting people who would not have entered teaching otherwise. More men, minorities entering field this path.

p.5, Richard W. Riley and Ted Sanders are the new co-chairs of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future.

p.6, The American Council on Education reports that minority college enrollment is growing (but have not caught up proportionately with while students).

p.29, Washington: First Lady embraces cause of youths at risk – emphasis on recruiting more men as mentors and teachers to help the development of boys.