RESEARCH

• OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH ON ALTERNATE ROUTES
  By: C. Emily Feistritzer and Charlene K. Haar
  
  
• Teacher Policy Research Papers
  Teacher Policy Research (TPR)
  
  
• Characteristics of Effective Alternative Teacher Certification Programs
  D. L. Humphrey, M. E. Wechsler & H. J. Hough
  
  
• Profile of Alternate Route Teachers
  C. Emily Feistritzer, President and CEO of the National Center for Alternative Certification (NCAC) and National Center for Education Information (NCEI), Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Studying Teacher Education: The Report of AERA Panel on Research and Teacher Education
  Edited by: Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Kenneth M. Zeichner
  
  
• STATE POLICY TRENDS FOR ALTERNATIVE ROUTES TO TEACHER CERTIFICATION: A Moving Target
  C. Emily Feistritzer, President and CEO of the National Center for Alternative Certification (NCAC) and National Center for Education Information (NCEI), Washington, D.C.
  
  
• STATE POLICY TRENDS FOR ALTERNATIVE ROUTES TO TEACHER CERTIFICATION: A Moving Target
  By: C. Emily Feistritzer
  
  
• Profile of Troops to Teachers
  By: C. Emily Feistritzer
  
  
• Troops to Teachers - A National Survey
  A Report Prepared for Mike Melo, Director, Virginia Office of Troops to Teachers.
  
  
• Eight Questions on Teacher recruitment and Retention: What Does the Research Say?
  By: Michael B. Allen
  
  
• Why Do Fellows Stick Around
  By: Peter Sipe and Amy D’Angelo
  
  
• TNTP Report on Effect of Teacher Union Contracts
  By: Jessica Levin, Jennifer Mulhern, and Joan Schunck
  
  
• Harvard Releases New Study of Thirteen Alternative Certification Program Sites
  A Difficult Balance: Incentives and Quality Control in Alternative Certification Programs by Susan Moore Johnson, Sarah E. Birkeland, and Heather G. Peske, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Project on Next Generation of Teachers
  
  
• New ECS Report on After-School Programs
  
  
• New Findings by CEP:
  States Test Limits of Federal AYP Flexibility
  
  
• Rankings of States 2004, Estimates of Statistics 2005
  
  
• Student Achievement in Private Schools
  Results From NAEP 2000–2005
  
  
• LATEST RESEARCH SHOWS EFFECTIVENESS OF ALTERNATE ROUTES
  by: Donald Boyd. Pamela Grossman. Hamilton Lankford. Susanna Loeb. James Wyckoff.
  
  
• Preparing Quality Teachers (paper)
  By: Deborah L. Earley, Mary Lou Goldberg, and Kathleen K. Huie
  
  
• Preparing Quality Teachers (powerpoint)
  By: Deborah L. Earley, Mary Lou Goldberg, and Kathleen K. Huie
  
  
• Alternate Pathways to Highly Accomplished Teaching: A Case Study
  By: Kay Brocato, Debra Prince, Esther Howard, Eric Groce
  
  
• Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) Standards
  
  
• FORMATIVE TEACHER CANDIDATE ASSESSMENT
  
  
• Do You Know The Latest Good News About American Education?
  Center on Education Policy
  
  
• Preparing Teachers for a Changing World: What Teachers Should Learn and Be Able To Do
  Edited by: Linda Darling-Hammond and John Bransford
  
  
• Full Text Literature Review on Alternative Certification [.pdf file]
  by Sarah E. Birkeland and Heather G. Peske
  
  
• Alternative Teacher Certification Procedures and Professional Development Opportunities for Career and Technical Education Teachers [.pdf file]
  by Sheila K. Ruhland, Ph.D., Project Director at the University of Minnesota and Christine D. Bremer, Ph.D., Project Coordinator at the University of Minnesota
  
  
• Report on an Educational Program: ALTERNATIVE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM 2001-2002, Houston Independent School District [.pdf file]
  
  
• Report on an Educational Program: ALTERNATIVE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM 2001-2002, Houston Independent School District - Appendix A [.pdf file]
  
  
• Report on an Educational Program: ALTERNATIVE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM 2001-2002, Houston Independent School District - Appendix B [.pdf file]
  
  
• Report on an Educational Program: ALTERNATIVE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM 2001–2002
  Houston Independent School District
  
  
• Evaluation of the Dewitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund's Pathways to Teaching Careers Program (October 2001) [.pdf file]
  by DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, Beatriz Chu Clewell of The Urban Institute and Ana María Villegas of Montclair State University
  
  
• Summary of the Evaluation of the Dewitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund's Pathways to Teaching Careers Program
  by DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, Beatriz Chu Clewell of The Urban Institute and Ana María Villegas of Montclair State University
  
  
• Placing beginning teachers in hard-to-staff schools: Dilemmas posed by alternative certification programs (February 2004) [.pdf file]
  by Elaine Chin, Professor, University Center for Teacher Education, California Polytechnic State University; John Young, Associate Professor, Rutgers University; and Barry Floyd, Associate Professor, Orfalea College of Business, California Polytechnic State University
  
  
• Alternative Teacher Certification Procedures and Professional Development Opportunities for Career and Technical Education Teachers (2002)
  by Sheila K. Ruhland, Ph.D., Project Director at the University of Minnesota and Christine D. Bremer, Ph.D., Project Coordinator at the University of Minnesota
  
  
• Eight Questions on Teacher Preparation: What Does the Research Show? (August, 2003)
  By Michael Allen, Program Director, Education Commission of the States.
  
  
• Alternative Teacher Preparation in Colorado: Moving from Experimental to Established
  by Mary Bassett, Gene Campbell, Eric Hirsch, Kelly Hupfeld, & Robert Reichardt, with assistance from Ann Foster and Andrea Jachman
  
  
• Research on Alternative Teacher Certification (February 2004)
  by Michael Podgursky, Department of Economics - University of Missouri - Columbia
  
  
• The Effects of Teach for America on Students: Findings from a National Evaluation (June 9, 2004) [.pdf file]
  By: Paul T. Decker, Daniel P. Mayer, and Steven Glazerman
  
  
• Fast-Track Alternative Certification Programs: Opportunities and Challenges for Participants and State Officials (November 2003)
  By: Susan Moore Johnson, Sarah E. Birkeland, and Heather G. Peske; Harvard Graduate School of Education Project on the Next Generation of Teachers
  
  
• State and District Policy Related to Mentoring and New Teacher Induction in Connecticut [.pdf file]
  By: Peter Youngs, Stanford University and Prepared for the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future