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.
