Teacher-Recruitment Town Hall Features Duncan, Danza

The AP (10/26, Matheson) reports, "US Education Secretary Arne Duncan took his national teacher-recruitment campaign to a town hall meeting in Philadelphia on Monday with actor-turned-teacher Tony Danza, hoping to inspire a new generation of educators. Addressing hundreds of high school and college students at Temple University, Duncan stressed the need to replace an estimated 1 million teachers expected to retire in the next few years." Duncan "also emphasized the need to diversify the nation's teaching ranks, noting that about 45 percent of American students are nonwhite while only 14 percent of teachers are in that demographic."