Too many will quit permanently because they are fed up. Their ambition and self-respect will take them into business or other professions.. .. They leave behind an increasing proportion of tired time-servers.-Life, 16 November 1962 B Y THE FALL of 2000, it had been about a year since we'd started noticing that our master's degree students-conscientious elementary and secondary school teachers-were complaining with increasing bitterness about a changing work environment in the public schools. "The love I had for my work is gone," we were hearing them say. "I never used to feel this way, but now it's hard to drag myself to school each day." Week after week the topic would come up in classes: for many
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