New Report Sheds More Light on Alternative Certification

2/13/2009 3:13:00 PM

The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences has released a new report on alt…

The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences has released a new report on alternative certification.

“The report, An Evaluation of Teachers Trained Through Different Routes to Certification, compares the achievement of elementary school students in the same grade, at the same school who were randomly assigned to teachers who chose to be trained through different routes to certification – traditional education school routes and alternative routes. The evaluation found that students of teachers who chose to enter teaching through an alternative route did not perform statistically different from students of teachers who chose a traditional route to teaching.”

For more information: http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20094043/pdf/20094043.pdf