Teacher Shortage Increasing - Not enough Ohio college students are enrolled in education to meet the demand for teachers that our increasing school population will make in the next few years recent statistics show. "Because of this we are three minutes from zero hour in an education crisis," Dr. Louis J. Ferber, dean of education at the University of Dayton said recently. "We will not have enough teachers to man the classrooms in our elementary schools within two years.." However, Middletown has not suffered the teacher shortages that have hit other Ohio communities in recent years, Wade E. Miller, superintendent of schools, reports. But if college students continue to scorn education as a career, there is no doubt that the slack will eventually reach this city, Miller believes...

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