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Article: Economic analysis and the design of alternative-route teacher education programs.
- Article from:
- Journal of Teacher Education
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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In the national effort to address teacher shortages, alternative-route (AR) preparation has taken center stage. In the past 20 years, more than 250,000 teachers have entered the profession via ARs, and currently 47 states and the District of Columbia offer at least one AR program (Feistritzer, Haar, Hobar, & Scullion, 2005). Growth of alternatives to traditional campus-based, preservice teacher preparation also has been stimulated by significant shortages of teachers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and, most recently, by federal policy. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in particular has encouraged the streamlining of teacher preparation to attract into ...