Now in my 16th year as a public school teacher, I have never been more certain of the following notion : the profession of public school teaching is in crisis.
It seems to me that our citizenry tends to speak of our public school system as a sort of ineffectual whole, referring to "our education system," or "our nation's schools." My ears and heart hear this deep, collective concern that our education system is failing. And there certainly are a ton of troubling facts associated with this concern. High school dropout rates are extraordinarily high. Funding is drying up. The achievement gap is sustaining itself. As a nation, we do worse than many countries that we used to do better than...the list goes on.
