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 ...

Washington, D.C. — Alternative teacher certification programs that are run outside of institutions of higher education (IHE) are an especially varied group that have enjoyed steady growth in ...

Region 18 Education Service Center has revamped its alternative certification program in collaboration with The New Teacher Project, a national organization. The first information session on the ...

Lisa Ashmore became a teacher in Texas despite failing to meet one of the most basic requirements - having a bachelor's degree from an accredited university. Ashmore got her degree from Louisiana ...

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 ...

Ensure Quality for Alternative Certification Programs for Teachers In order to ensure program quality, state policies should support the recruitment of talented candidates, assessment and support of ...

Many professionals are drawn to the idea of teaching high school chemistry as a second career. In lieu of entering and undergraduate teacher program, alternative teacher certification is a quick and ...

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 ...

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 ...

ASCENSION PARISH, La. (WAFB) - Ascension Parish is looking for more teachers, and they want to help you become certified so you can work in their classrooms. A year ago Keith Sheppard was a substitute ...

Alicia Luna was a special education aide at several Abilene ISD schools. Now, she's the teacher in charge of 21 kindergarteners at Bonham Elementary. Wylie High School alum Brenda Morales served in ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- New York is investing nearly $14 million in workforce training programs at a dozen colleges to help mold the future educators of the state. On Friday, Gov. Kathy Hochul ...