<![CDATA[Too Few Teachers; Too Much Blame on NCLB]]>

1.0 link 54078 <![CDATA[Too Few Teachers; Too Much Blame on NCLB]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marc-lampkin/too-few-teachers-too-much_b_54078.html There was an article in the Washington Post last Sunday that infuriated me. It wasn't the article so much as the headline: "Schools Pinched in Hiring: Teacher Shortage Looms as Law Raises Bar and Boomer Women Retire."

From this, one might infer that the growing teacher shortage and our inability to keep talented teachers in the classroom is the fault of President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, which tightened requirements for teacher qualifications (just as some would like to...

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