Sentences with phrase «lack traditional certification»

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What makes these programs particularly interesting is that their founders were leaders from the charter school sector who created their own teacher certification and master's degree programs after concluding that the teachers who graduate from most traditional teacher education programs lack the skills needed to teach successfully.

We are also deeply troubled by the prospect that if virtually unregulated teacher certification academies with little academic quality control are allowed to proliferate, the employers of their graduates will be either charter schools, many operating in high - poverty communities, or traditional public schools that lack the resources to be selective and competitive in hiring the best - qualified teachers.

Under rules for traditional public schools, it would be difficult for a businessman like Jackson native Jim Barksdale, a former executive at FedEx and Netscape, to teach a business or computer science course at a local high school because he lacks state certification.

The intent of the law was to allow for an alternative to traditional college teacher - training programs, but much of the hang - up seems to be the fact that the alternative certification candidates, by definition, lack the university transcript the board expects to see.