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Texas Tech Researcher Shows Outcomes from Influx of Uncertified Texas Teachers

Leslie Cranford

October 3, 2024

Jacob Kirksey

Assistant professor Jacob Kirksey shared his findings with the Texas Legislature.

With a public-school teacher shortage plaguing most of the U.S. for the past many years, especially in Texas, one solution was to put partially trained or uncertified teachers into classrooms. That trend has recently exploded, but not without some major drawbacks recently documented by one Texas Tech University researcher.

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