"The Teacher Goes Job-Hunting"
Magazine article
By: Thomas Minehan
Date: June 1, 1927
Source: Minehan, Thomas. "The Teacher Goes Job-Hunting." The Nation 124, no. 3230, June 1, 1927, 605–606.
About the Author: Thomas Minehan (dates unknown), a sociologist and high school teacher, received a master's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1933. During the Great Depression, he lived as a hobo in order to study the lives of the transient homeless. Struck by the number of children he encountered, he wrote Boy and Girl Tramps of America, which was the inspiration for a PBS documentary, Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Depression.
Introduction
Historically, teaching in schools has been regarded by the America public as a low-status job requiring few qualifications and offering little pay. Initially, most teachers were men who were considered unfit for any...
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