My Inner City Story: Why Alternative Certification Programs Don’t Work

What would you do if you were the superintendent of schools, and one of your schools had less than half of the positions filled? Or if you looked over the entire city and saw that you were seriously short science teachers? You would likely do whatever it took to fill those spaces because whether or not you have the teachers–kids are coming to school in September. That’s exactly what inner cities have done. They come up with random criteria like high performance in another area of life. They offer incentives like a paid for Master’s in Education, a monetary bonus … Continue reading