Sentences with phrase «rigorous alternative certification program»

TNTP Teaching Fellows is a rigorous alternative certification program that recruits and trains talented career changers and recent college graduates to be outstanding teachers in high - need schools across the country.

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The report criticizes as «weak» the college education of prospective teachers and calls for major revisions in teacher - training programs, including a more rigorous general education, fewer education courses, revised financing formulas for colleges of education, and the development of alternative - certification plans.

Walsh said alternative certification programs are not doing enough to make sure teachers know their subject matter, something that will only become more important as most states prepare to test the rigorous Common Core State Standards, which require broad content knowledge.