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Pennsylvania is experiencing serious teacher and staff shortages in our public schools. Between 2012-13 and 2022-23, there was a 66% decline in the number of certificates issued to new teachers.
Penn GSE offers 20 different master's degrees in programs ranging from Higher Education to Counseling and Mental Health Services. It also offers 15 doctorate degrees, in both education and philosophy. Programs include: Education Entrepreneurship M.S.Ed. Education Policy M.S.Ed; Education Policy Ph.D. Education, Culture, and Society M.S.Ed.
Eventually, the area's need for liberally educated personnel to staff its industries outstripped the need for teachers. In 1960, the Pennsylvania Department of Education changed the institution's name to Kutztown State College and diversified its goals toward "A center for learning for the best possible education of the youth of Pennsylvania in ...
The Center for Science and the Schools (CSATS) is a center housed in the College of Education that aims to strengthen science education throughout Pennsylvania. CSATS links Penn State researchers to K-12 schools and helps them to develop and test teaching strategies that will improve education in the sciences.
The normal schools evolved from state normal schools, to state teacher's colleges, to state colleges. Act 188, which was signed into law on November 12, 1982, and came into effect on July 1, 1983, established the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, and converted those state colleges into universities.
The school received a charter on October 12, 1926, making it the first normal school in Pennsylvania to become a state teachers college. On June 3, 1927, the State Council of Education authorized the school to change its name to the "State Teachers College at Shippensburg". The business education curriculum was approved on December 3, 1937.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education oversees 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania, over 170 public charter schools (2019), Career and Technology Centers/Vocational Technical schools, 29 Intermediate Units, the education of youth in State Juvenile Correctional Institutions, and publicly funded preschools (Head Start and PreK Counts ...
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