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 ...

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 ...

A study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and national Council on Teacher Quality concludes alternative teacher certification programs are proving to be more of a setback to education reform than an ...

HOUSTON – Teachers of Tomorrow is the nation’s largest alternative certification provider, where over 75,000 quality teachers have become certified. Wondering how to become a teacher with Teachers of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. With public schools facing a dearth of teachers and traditional teacher-training programs struggling ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Smitha Ramani leaned over a folding table to whisper encouragement to a student about to give a ...