Alternative certification for schoolteachers is booming: More than one out of every five new teachers is alternatively certified, and nearly every state allows teachers to forgo traditional ...

In “What’s the Alternative to a Well-Prepared Teacher?”—just published by the National Education Policy Center—my friends and colleagues Chris Goering and Bill McComas criticize the Arkansas Teacher ...

FLORENCE — Alternative certification is opening up nontraditional pathways to teaching in South Carolina. People with a bachelor’s degree in nearly any area can sign up with multiple programs to earn ...

A Houston for-profit company thinks it has a cure for South Carolina's chronic teacher shortage. Teachers of Tomorrow, an outgrowth of Texas Teachers for Tomorrow, says it has helped certify more than ...

Who better to teach U.S. government as a second career than Jon, who has worked for 25 years for the Federal Aviation Administration? He has coordinated activities involving local, state, and regional ...

Although Jenks Middle School math teacher Emily Dotson is paid 25 percent less than in her first career as an accountant, she is immensely happier. "I just really felt a lack of fulfillment. I ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Legislation that would improve the alternative teaching certification process was approved today by the Oklahoma House of Representatives. Current law requires a candidate for ...

This article was originally published in Alabama Reflector. An Alabama state representative has filed a bill that would reduce the requirements for alternative teacher certification programs. HB 342, ...

On June 6, 2022, Saint Louis University’s School of Education unveiled the name of their newest alternative pathway in the teacher-certification program: The STL Teaching Fellows @ SLU. In the midst ...

Read full article: Man fatally shot in La Marque early Saturday morning, suspect at large Harris County Sheriff's Office says two suspects, Joseph Plattenberg and Jordyn Wells, were arrested and ...

Anticipating a critical shortage of math, science and foreign language teachers, the state Legislature included an alternative teacher certification program into the sweeping 1990 education reform act ...