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Alternate teaching gains popularity.


Nearly 33 percent of all certified teachers A certified teacher is a teacher who has earned credentials from an authoritative source, such as the government, a higher education institution or a private source. These certifications allow teachers to teach in schools which require authorization in general, as well as allowing  who taught for the first time this year were licensed through alternate routes An official alternate route is a bannered highway that provides an alternate alignment for a highway. Originally, the term for these routes was "optional"; but in 1959, the designation became alternate. , according to according to
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About 35,000 new teachers this year are former professionals or military personnel, according to Profile of Alternate Route Teachers, by C. Emily Feistritzer, president and chief executive officer of the National Center for Alternative Certification. About half of survey respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy.  said they would not have pursued teaching without the alternate route.

Alternate preparation and licensing are available in 47 states and Washington, D.C.. due to a nationwide shortage and the need to recruit an estimated 2.2 million new teachers in the next decade as others retire or leaves.
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Title Annotation:update
Publication:District Administration
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Aug 1, 2005
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