Teaching & Learning

Model programs that are helping paraprofessionals and returning Peace Corps volunteers become teachers show promise, says a preliminary report on the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund's "Pathways to Teaching Careers" initiative.

The fund has spent $40 million since 1989 to set up programs at 42 colleges and universities to provide scholarships and support services so that classroom aides, noncertified teachers, and former Peace Corps volunteers could go back to school and earn bachelor's or master's degrees and teaching licenses. Its goal is to increase the supply of minority teachers and to provide...