The Associated Press: US education chief appeals for great new teachers:
"CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan appealed Friday for a new generation of extraordinary teachers, calling education the civil rights cause of our time.
Duncan told about 100 prospective teachers at the University of Virginia that veterans, retirees and professionals seeking a second career must heed the call to teach. He said the need is especially acute for black men in the nation's classrooms.
'Put plain and simple, this country needs an army of great, new teachers — and I can think of no better place to start recruiting them than in Thomas Jefferson's hallowed halls,' Duncan told Curry School of Education students in the Jefferson-designed Rotunda, the academic heart of U.Va.'s Charlottesville campus."
"CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan appealed Friday for a new generation of extraordinary teachers, calling education the civil rights cause of our time.
Duncan told about 100 prospective teachers at the University of Virginia that veterans, retirees and professionals seeking a second career must heed the call to teach. He said the need is especially acute for black men in the nation's classrooms.
'Put plain and simple, this country needs an army of great, new teachers — and I can think of no better place to start recruiting them than in Thomas Jefferson's hallowed halls,' Duncan told Curry School of Education students in the Jefferson-designed Rotunda, the academic heart of U.Va.'s Charlottesville campus."