Fact-Checking Joel Klein
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Dana Goldstein fact-checks former NYC school chancellor Joel Klein who claimed that “Most of the people who’ve gone through [teacher credential programs] don’t think the credential is valuable”. Dipping into the relevant data, Dana finds:
In 2007 Public Agenda surveyed 865 first-year teachers in high-needs schools, some of whom had graduated from traditional teaching programs, others who entered the profession through Teach for America, the New Teacher Project, and Troops to Teachers. Eighty percent of the teachers with traditional training reported feeling prepared during their first year on the job, compared to just 50 percent of the alternative-certification teachers. More than half of alt-route teachers said they hadn’t
