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 > (410)727-4808 > [log in to unmask] >