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 ...

The Alabama Board of Education has approved the state’s first non-college-based alternative teacher preparation program, a move the schools chief said could help with the state’s teacher shortage.

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 ...

Jack Oliver had a bachelor's degree in business management and two decades of technical training in the Coast Guard when he decided he wanted to teach in Maryland public schools. But to become a ...

A new national report credits alternative teacher certification programs for effectively filling teacher shortages. The report, released in September by the Dallas-based National Center for Policy ...

Montana is changing requirements around teacher licensure in order to fill vacancies in the state. The Montana Board of Public Education voted unanimously Monday to approve an alternative path to ...

(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) The online teaching certification program will help fill Kentucky's teacher vacancies and give professionals with bachelor's degrees a simple, affordable route to the ...

UNIVERSITY PARK | Alternative Teacher Certification information sessions will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday and July 6 in the Hall of Honors at Governors State University. Those attending will learn how ...

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, ...