Even the best teachers feel disillusioned about teaching at times. However, some are brokenhearted and dispirited about what teaching has become, yet continue teaching because they have limited alternatives. Is there a solution?



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Jesse Hagopian teaches history at Garfield High School, the site of the historic boycott of the MAP test in 2013; Vicki Davis is a classroom technology teacher and author of Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds; David Smith taught for 20 years in both public and parochial schools in Southeastern Pennsylvania; and Nancy Blair is a school improvement consultant and former administrator.