LOOKING TO THE MILITARY FOR FUTURE TEACHERS.(MAIN)

Byline: WILLIAM RASPBERRY

WASHINGTON -- Over the next decade, we'll need to hire 2 million new teachers. Only it's not clear where we'll find them. Talented women, who have long been the majority of teachers, now have far more options than they did a generation ago. And better salaries in other professions are luring bright young women -- and men -- away from teaching.

That excerpt from a radio ad by Sandra Feldman, president of the American Federation of Teachers, is one view of the problem. Here's another: Fairfax County, Va., has 13 qualified applicants for every elementary school opening.

Which is the reality?

As with so many of the controversies surrounding public …