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Could teaching assistants be an overlooked teacher pipeline? New research says yes

As school districts continue searching for ways to recruit and retain teachers, new research from UNC-Chapel Hill suggests one promising pipeline may already be in classrooms: teaching assistants.

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As school districts continue searching for ways to recruit and retain teachers, new research from UNC-Chapel Hill suggests one promising pipeline may already be in classrooms: teaching assistants. A new statewide study from the Education Policy Initiative at Carolina (EPIC) found that nearly 1 in 5 beginning teachers in North Carolina previously worked as teaching assistants.

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