Teacher Prep

But for all of Princeton’s contributions to education reform, I’d like to see the University do more to meet public education’s most fundamental challenge: finding 1.6 million great teachers in the next decade as the baby boom bubble of teachers retires.

During the fall semester of his senior year, J.D. Walters ’09 found his interest in graduate school waning. Faced by the high cost of further education and the poor employment prospects for Ph.D. graduates in philosophy and theology, Walters turned to the University’s Program in Teacher Preparation.