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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Certification in DC is a bureaucratic nightmare. Lots of certified teachers have talent. Many talented teachers are denied certification for arbitrary reasons. It is a national problem, but DC is particularly bad. They are very unwilling to credit education/experience that is not one of their approved 'pipelines' - like TFA or UDC or AU (good school, produces good teachers--intimate relationship with licensing). [/quote]

Yes and no.

Yes, certification is a bureaucratic nightmare. Too much redundancy in the process and way, way too many pieces of paper.

No, teachers are not denied certification for arbitrary reasons. They are denied certification if they haven't completed coursework in an accredited program.

Yes, they (OSSE) should be unwilling to credit education/experience that is not one of their approved pipelines. Otherwise, they are being irresponsible in granting certification. Just because you spent a few weeks in an intensive science camp doesn't mean you are a qualified science teacher, and just because you went to school doesn't make you a certified teacher.

The issues of school quality are only tangentially related to the certification process. The problem is not actually the traditional certification process; the issue is the alternative certification process (TFA being the most obvious problem) and its false sense of school improvement.[/quote]

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