According to a report published this month by the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, as many as a third of the nation’s 3.2 million teachers could retire in the next four years.  Today’s New York Times notes that “the teaching career is collapsing at both ends”, as one of every three new teachers leaves the profession within five years.  While the current economic downtown may attract new college graduates and individuals from other fields, an important education metric going forward is teacher retention and average age.

-Aneesa Arshad