Financial Failure Encourages Teacher Training

A recent USA Today article asserts that the financial downturn is responsible for more applicants to teacher ed. programs, specifically Teach For America.

Eh, their arguments on the causes are pretty flawed, and we could discuss whether the growing numbers are good or bad, but they have some interesting stats about the growth of TFA. I thought I'd share:

Year	Applicants
2000	4,068
2001	4,946
2002	13,877
2003	15,708
2004	13,378
2005	17,348
2006	18,968
2007	18,172
2008	24,718