Increase Seen in Teachers Hired Outside of Teacher Ed

Four in 10 public school teachers hired since 2005 entering teaching through alternatives to traditional teacher education programs, up from 22 percent of new teachers hired between 2000-2004, according to a new study from the National Center for Education Information. Those figures are also up from 8 percent in the 1990s and 4 percent in the 1980s. With the new cohorts' impact on the teaching population as a whole, the proportion of teachers who entered the field through traditional teacher ed has dropped from 95 percent 15 years ago to 67 percent.