Alternative Certification Programs: Meeting the Demand for Effective Teachers

Publication Date: September 2009

Publisher: National Center for Policy Analysis (U.S.)

Author(s): Rebecca Garcia; Jessica Huseman

Research Area: Education

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?