{"id":12772,"date":"2019-05-21T12:03:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T17:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=12772"},"modified":"2019-05-21T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T17:03:04","slug":"education-school-enrollment-drops-title-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/education-school-enrollment-drops-title-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Education School Enrollment Drops Again &#8211; Title II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The teacher shortage is getting worse because we continue to produce less teachers every year.\u00a0 Title II, <a href=\"https:\/\/title2.ed.gov\/Public\/DataTools\/Tables.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the US DOE\u2019s data base<\/a> of educator preparation programs, just recently updated with the latest statistics on enrollment and completion and they continue to show traditional educator preparation programs are not attracting people into teaching.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2008-2009 school year there were 637,635 students enrolled in traditional teaching programs and in the latest year that number has dropped to 341,339 \u2013 a 46% drop in enrollment. As for program completers, they have dropped from 178,777 to 124,272 &#8211; a 30% drop.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1651\" height=\"815\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/media\/TOT000029_Blog-Post-Charts_Title-ii_Traditional.jpg\" alt=\"teacher shortage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There has not been a 46% drop in student enrollment so this obviously creates a significant staffing problem for our schools.<\/p>\n<p>Alternative certification programs are one solution.\u00a0 Though enrollment in higher education based alternative certification programs dropped from 42,851 to 32,029 over the same period, enrollment in non-higher education based alternative certification programs almost doubled from 38,595 to 70,866.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1651\" height=\"870\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/media\/TOT000029_Blog-Post-Charts_Title-ii_Alternative.jpg\" alt=\"teacher shortage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The solution to the teacher shortage is finding people who want to teach and finding a way to get them into teaching.\u00a0 The Title II numbers show that there are people that want to teach and if they find a program that meets their needs the way alternative certification does, they will enroll and start to teach.<\/p>\n<p>Most independent teacher certification programs provide what the potential teachers demand \u2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A solid recruiting process to find people who want to teach<\/li>\n<li>A program that meets the needs of people that want to move into teaching<\/li>\n<li>A cost effective, convenient but still high-quality method for getting into teaching.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Texas is leading the charge now getting over 50% of its new teachers from alternative certification and getting much greater diversity in the teaching workforce because of it.\u00a0 A look at Title II enrollment numbers shows that less than 47% of those enrolled in Texas programs are white.\u00a0 This is stark contrast to traditional teaching programs in the rest of the country where the current enrollment numbers are 71% white.<\/p>\n<p>As for a positive impact on students, a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/tea.texas.gov\/Texas_Educators\/Preparation_and_Continuing_Education\/Consumer_Information_about_Educator_Preparation_Programs.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Education Agency data<\/a> on state programs show that quality or alternatively certified teachers is solid \u2013 with some programs achieving a 70% five year retention rate and ratings of these teachers are all within the range of other programs.<\/p>\n<p>The most current Title II data is from the 2016-2017 school year. But the trends we have seen in educator preparation remains \u2013 traditional programs continue to lose students while non-higher ed based alternative certification programs continue to attract great people that want to teach.\u00a0 Those programs become the best way to ensure that every child has a great teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The teacher shortage is getting worse because we continue to produce less teachers every year.\u00a0 Title II, the US DOE\u2019s data base of educator preparation programs, just recently updated with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/media\/TOT000029_Blog-Post-Charts_Title-ii_Traditional.jpg","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-08 19:23:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12776,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12772\/revisions\/12776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}