re: Matthew White's reply:


Urban Areas especially if they are blight stricken pay more than rural areas.
Newark, NJ which is a war zone pays 1st year teachers $32,500 to start
w/o  a Masters degree.  MAny of the less populated and safer suburban areas
start at $23,000 and up.  $32,500 is quite a bit more to start than many
of the recent advertisemnts under education in AVISO lately.
It really is a question of whether or not you are willing to take comabat pay
and all that it entails.


Patsy

On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Matthew White wrote:

> > The program I am in, for example, requires
> >>either a thesis or an internship of at least 6 months.  Six months
> >>is a long time to go without money.
>
>
> But isn't that what has been expected of Student Teachers for at least as
> far back as my mother student-taught (in the 50's) and there seems to be
> no shortage of minorities willing to go into that field.  In my city over
> 75% of the tachers and school administrators are Arican-American. (my
> numbers could be off, these were the numbers when  Istudent taught in
> 1993.  I think I'm in the ballpark.)  I am not saying making anyone work
> so long and so hard for no money is a good way to run your professional
> training.  I think it keeps a lot of talented people from entering both
> professions.    Nor am I saying that certain groups do not have a
> difficult time joining the education profession, but it is one of the
> most culturally diverse (judging only from my impressionistic data, and
> based upon no scientific studies) fields I have ever seen.  How do they
> do it, and what can we learn from the experience?
>
> Matthew A. White
> Director of Education
> Baltimore Museum of Industry
> 1415 Key Highway
> Baltimore, MD 21230
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