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It's time for schools of education to embrace new routes to teacher certification
- 05-11-2010
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Opinion by Jonathan Zimmerman/Los Angeles Times
Let's suppose you have spent your career as a professor at an American education school, training future teachers. Then suppose that your state decided that teachers could get certified without attending an education school at all. That's called "alternative certification," and most of my school of education colleagues are outraged by it. I take a different view. These new routes into teaching could transform the profession, by attracting the type of student that has eluded education schools for far too long. (more...)
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