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Download full textJ. Jacob Kirksey; Jessica J. Gottlieb – Center for Innovative Research in Change, Leadership, and Education, 2024
This study addresses the burgeoning phenomenon of fully online alternative teacher certification programs (ACPs). In Texas where most teachers are prepared via ACPs, our research zeroes in on the proportion of teachers who are prepared fully online and the relative effectiveness of teacher preparation programs on student achievement and teacher…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Virtual Universities
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Direct linkHollo, Alexandra; Floyd, Kim K.; Brigandi, Carla B. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2019
National- and state-level education policies are evolving to address teacher shortages that are pervasive across the United States and are particularly problematic in rural special education. In this article, we describe a policy we call "endorsement by exam" in which teachers certified in one subject area can become certified in other…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Special Education, Educational Policy, Teacher Certification
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2020
All but four states in the nation now permit teachers to come into the profession through an "alternate route," compared to only a few 30 years ago. Alternate routes into the classroom have grown so acceptable that about one in five teachers now enters the profession through one of these programs, which offer some real benefits to the…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, State Standards, Admission Criteria, Teacher Competency Testing
