Slate's new blog

I recently stumbled upon Slate.com's new educational blog, "Schoolhouse Rock", which is being written by the New York Times Magazine editor, Paul Tough.  He's recently been writing about educational reform in New Orleans, which I had read earlier in the summer.  Most of his posts thus far are about teachers, recruitment and merit pay--specifically talking a lot about the Obama campaign.  It made me think about TCTT's step 3 suggestion nearly ten years ago about recruiting the next generation of teachers, and how that still seems to be an issue.  As someone in education, seeing people quitting their office jobs and getting their alternative teaching certification here in Texas, mainly because they like the summers off, I definitely feel the frustrations.  There are a few interesting ideas/thoughts in the blog...