ational Commission On Teaching And America’s Future…

is out with a new report saying that the USA is going to be hit by the most massive wave of teacher retirements in out nation’s history.

They say that over the next four years that around 1/3 of the 3.2 million teachers we have could retire and under a decade around 1.7 million could be gone.

They want to see veteran teachers become mentors. They want changes in pay policy as well.

In the main graphic they show looking at the 2003-2004 school year no state had under 40% of teachers in the state with an average age under 50%.