Routes to alternative teacher certification are more aggressive than ever, with targeted recruitment in specific areas and subjects. These routes have produced talented adults eager to fill the demand and who stay in those teaching jobs longer than graduates of traditional teacher education programs. Each state has at least one alternative route to teaching program offered through an adult education program.

At the end of the 2008 school year 62,000 new teachers had earned their certification through an alternative program, which was about one-third of all new teachers that year. These alternative routes produce teachers who generally are older, more ethnically diverse, more willing to teach wherever the jobs are, and more willing to teach high-demand subjects than are traditionally trained teachers (State-by-State Analysis 2009, National Center for Education Information).

Teacher shortages are more likely to occur in urban schools that have high concentrations of poor, minority, and limited English proficient students. At the same time, rural areas experience many of the same shortages. Math, science, special education, bilingual, and foreign language are the subject areas that are the focal point of these shortages.

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