In a tough job market, people with doctorates in other disciplines are seeking employment in K-12 education, trading the high-wire uncertainties of university teaching for the stability of public school tenure. While their numbers are still small - about 1.7 percent of teachers held doctorates in subjects other than education as of 1996 - they are believed to be growing. This could bode well for public education, though private schools also attract many such professionals who are reluctant to jump through the teacher-certification hoops. "Scholars in a teenage wasteland," by Brian Hanson-Harding, The New York Times, November 10, 2002
