Education chief, actor reach out to teachers
Monday, October 25th, 2010
By: Tom MacDonald
tmacdonald@whyy.org
The Secretary of Education and celebrity teacher Tony Danza joined forces Monday at Temple University to talk about the pressing need for educators in the United States.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told the future educators and others thinking about joining the profession there are 8,000 new teachers needed across the country.
"Far too many great young teachers come in and want to make a difference but they don't have the classroom management skills, they are not listened to, there are not many mentoring and they burn out," said Duncan. "They don't make it."
Actor Tony Danza, who stars in a reality television series about his year of teaching at Northeast High School in Philadelphia, was passionate about the experience.