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Alternative Certification Programs: Meeting the Demand for Effective Teachers
Publication Date: September 2009
Publisher(s): National Center for Policy Analysis (U.S.)
Author(s): Rebecca Garcia; Jessica Huseman
Funder(s): National Center for Policy Analysis (U.S.)
Funder(s): National Center for Policy Analysis (U.S.)
Series: BA674
Topic: Education (Education policy and planning)
Keywords: teachers; teacher certification
Type: Brief
Abstract:
Growing public school enrollment, an increase in the number of teachers retiring or leaving the profession and legislated limits on class size have made finding competent educators a growing challenge. In recent years, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have established alternative certification programs to help meet this challenge. But have these programs been successful?