May 2
Eighty-two percent of public school teachers have a computer available at home.
May 3
Friedrich Froebel founded kindergarten in Germany.
May 4
The median age of U.S. teachers is 44.
May 7
U.S. teachers work an average of 2,108 hours a year.
May 8
Eleanor Roosevelt persuaded Congress to have a National Teacher Day.
May 9
By the end of this decade, over 2.45 million teachers will need to be hired.
May 10
Eighty-four percent of U.S. public school teachers have computers available in their classrooms.
May 11
The first kindergarten in the U.S. was in Watertown, WI.
May 14
The average U.S. teacher works 516 hours (32 percent) more than the average American worker.
May 15
National Teacher Day is always on the Tuesday of the first full week in May.
May 16
Clara Barton was a former teacher and founder of the American Red Cross.
May 17
The largest school district in the U.S. is New York City with 1,071,853 students.
The second largest is the Los Angeles Unified School District with 680,430 students.
May 18
Approximately $6,915 is spent on each public school student every year.
May 21
Helen Keller's teacher was Annie Sullivan.
May 22
T. S. Eliot said, "There is no method but to be very intelligent."
May 23
Sheryl Crow was an elementary-school music teacher in St. Louis.
May 24
Christa McAuliffe was the teacher killed in the Challenger explosion.
May 25
The NEA is in Washington, DC.
May 28
George W. Bush's education plan is called, "No child left behind."
May 29
PTA stands for Parent Teacher Association.
May 30
James Van Der Beek, from Dawson's Creek, was
raised by a mom who was a physical education teacher.
May 31
John Dewey said, "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."