Public schools and private schools have very different pay rates. A public school near me starts a MS degree with no experience at $49K. Equivalent private schools in the area are less than half that! I teach in the Chicago Public Schools as a Math teacher. Yes, I experience the same frustrations and problems, but I've got the golden handcuffs on. If I had only gotten into teaching from day one. I spent 25 years as a COBOL mainframer. After Y2K, I was obsolete, so I went into teaching. Helluva lot more fun than being a cube dweller. And in a big city system, decent dough. But that why we call it combat pay.

Absolutely agree. Lecture is mostly dead. I found that I, myself, skipped 50% of the classes. But the major part of my university life does not consist of classes. Interaction with the Professor, with my classmates, and the resources available in University are the things that enable many more ideas to be realized. Those are the key.

Did he mention virtual Lab? I didn't RTFA but how is it going to work!? Unless you are saying we are plugged in the Matrix...

There, fixed that for you. I see you skipped most of the written communications, grammar and syntax classes.

So when are they going to finish the job they started with replacing the FAA's 40+ year-old IBM mainframes?

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.04/es.faa.html