Not a "man bites dog" media story for sure, but university professors who willingly choose to teach at a high school for a semester or a year, well, that does cause a few heads to turn. Previous posts I have published (see here for a math professor and here for an education professor) raise similar issues to what Edwin "Ted" Fenton, a history professor at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon  University) learned by teaching for a semester at Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh (PA) over six decades ago.

I have now been at Allderdice for five months, long enough to see sharp differences between high school and university teaching situations. From the very beginning the sharpest contrast has been in the physical environment and pace. Allderdice crowds into one building 3,200 students while [my university] has about 1,400 spread over 80 acres. The only room available at Allderdice for quiet study is a chemistry storeroom. At [my university] I share an office the size of the men teachers' room at Allderdice, with one colleague.

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