Eliminating a major barrier to classroom entry for recent college graduates and career-switchers, the Keystone State's board of education last week voted to deem "qualified" those teachers who receive training from Teach for America and other national alternative programs. The board also decreed that elementary-certified teachers who instruct seventh- and eighth-graders must pass tests in their subjects in order to be considered highly qualified. "Pa. moves to raise teacher standard," by Dale Mezzacappa, The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 15, 2002
