Goldhaber’s New Research Examines the College and Employment Pathways of Prospective Teachers
Posted: 5/16/2024 (CSDE Research)
CSDE Affiliate Dan Goldhaber (Social Work) in Educational Researcher, titled “The Long and Winding Road: Mapping the College and Employment Pathways to Teacher Education Program Completion in Washington State“. Nationally, more than 75% of individuals who are credentialed to teach are prepared in traditional college- or university-based teacher education programs (TEPs). But the college and employment pathways that prospective teachers take to TEP enrollment and completion have not been comprehensively examined. A better understanding of how credentialed individuals find their way into TEPs helps us understand the sources of new teacher supply early in the prospective teacher pipeline. With that in mind, authors analyze pathways into and through TEPs using historical postsecondary and unemployment insurance data from Washington State.