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Teachers’ preparation routes and policy views
- 08-22-2011
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Blog by Matthew Di Carlo/Shanker Blog
In a previous post, I lamented the scarcity of survey data measuring what teachers think of different education policy reforms. A couple of weeks ago, the National Center for Education Information (NCEI) released the results of their teacher survey (conducted every five years), which provides a useful snapshot of teachers’ opinions toward different policies (albeit not at the level of detail that one might wish). There are too many interesting results to review in one post, and I encourage you to take a look at the full set yourself. There was, however, one thing about the survey tabulations that I found particularly striking, and that was the high degree to which policy opinions differed between traditionally-certified teachers and those who entered teaching through alternative certification (alt-cert). In the figure below, I reproduce data from the NCEI report’s battery of questions about whether teachers think different policies would “improve education.” (more...)
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