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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

West Virginia lawmakers are working to pass bills that address teacher shortages by creating alternative paths to teacher certification. The House of Delegates recently passed two bills allowing ...

Louisiana’s first alternative program to certify teachers of English learners will seek final approval Wednesday from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

UNIVERSITY PARK | Learn how to earn elementary or secondary (biology, chemistry, or mathematics) teacher certification and secure a teaching position through Governors State University’s Alternative ...

It’s good to read in The Advocate that alternative teacher certification is growing in Louisiana, particularly since the research consensus around traditional teacher certification and training ...

Louisiana’s first alternative program to certify teachers of English learners will seek final approval from the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on Wednesday in hopes of addressing a ...

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 ...

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 ...