<p>via the Times:
Teaching</a> Candidates Aplenty, but the Jobs Are Few - NYTimes.com</p>
<p>The part that caught my attention was this: "Teach for America, which places graduates from some of the nation’s top colleges in poor schools, has seen applications increase by nearly a third this year to 46,000 — for 4,500 slots. From Ivy League colleges alone, there are 1,688 would-be teachers."</p>
<p>Some surprising facts; if you crunch the numbers, that's almost 10-12% of '10 grads going on to TFA. So much for Wall Street and consulting. </p>
<p>Also, how do people feel about this? Are over-eager but unprepared Ivy Leaguers taking the places/potential jobs/positions of better trained, and better equipped teaching professionals? Teaching veterans? Other recent grads who intended to teach from the get-go (i.e. education majors)? Is this good? Bad? </p>
<p>Are teachers feeling resentful towards TFAers? Esp in this horrid job market? </p>
<p>Not to stir up controversy for the sake of controversy...but this is a really interesting phenomenon.</p>