As the population of certified teachers shrinks due to the number reaching retirement
age, alternative certification programs have been proposed and, in
some cases, implemented on state and national levels. The Department of Defense
Troops to Teachers Program (Troops to Teachers), originally established
as a Department of Defense career transition program, was reauthorized as
part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Although the program is primarily
designed to provide quality classroom teachers at the secondary school level,
the program was neither intended nor designed to certify...