Licensure Loopholes: South Carolina
Exiting Ineffective Teachers Policy
Analysis of South Carolina's policies
South Carolina requires that only teachers who have met all state requirements teach in core academic areas. The state does allow certified out-of-state teachers who do not meet the state's licensure requirements to teach for one year under a temporary certificate, provided they are not teaching one of the core subject areas, defined as "English, reading or language arts, mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics, government, economics, history, geography, and the arts."
Recommendations for South Carolina
State response to our analysis
South Carolina recognized the factual accuracy of this analysis.
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Delivering Well Prepared Teachers
- Admission into Preparation Programs
- Elementary Teacher Preparation
- Elementary Teacher Preparation in Reading Instruction
- Elementary Teacher Preparation in Mathematics
- Middle School Teacher Preparation
- Secondary Teacher Preparation
- Secondary Teacher Preparation in Science
- Secondary Teacher Preparation in Social Studies
- Special Education Teacher Preparation
- Assessing Professional Knowledge
- Student Teaching
- Teacher Preparation Program Accountability
Expanding the Pool of Teachers
Identifying Effective Teachers
- State Data Systems
- Evaluation of Effectiveness
- Frequency of Evaluations
- Tenure
- Licensure Advancement
- Equitable Distribution
Retaining Effective Teachers
Exiting Ineffective Teachers
Research rationale
Research has shown that "the difference in student performance in a single academic year from having a good as opposed to a bad teacher can be more than one full year of standardized achievement." See E. Hanushek, "The Trade-Off between Child Quantity and Quality," The Journal of Political Economy 100 No. 1 (1992): 84-117. Hanushek has also found that highly effective teachers can improve future student earnings by more than $400,000, assuming a class of 20. "The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality." National Bureau of Economic Research. Working Paper 16606 (2010).