Good Morning Ms. Alba

The students have spoken. And, given the results of NEA’s Substitute Educator Day Poll, it seems most of them are young men! Actress Jessica Alba—the star of Into the Blue and Fantastic Four—is the celebrity that respondents most want to see in the classroom for a day. Alba won 46 percent of the more than 5,000 votes. Runner-up Oprah Winfrey took 24 percent.

The poll was part of NEA’s celebration of Substitute Teachers Day, observed during American Education Week in November and designed to highlight the need for greater respect and better wages, benefits, and training for substitute teachers. For more information, go to www.nea.org/aew .