Research

NOTE: Data presented on this page only accounts for students who participated in the Teacher Cadet Program in South Carolina.

Real-time Data for South Carolina Teacher Cadets

• Click here to view real-time results to the Teacher Cadet Student Pre-Survey for the 2011-2012 school year. Note: Data only reflects results of South Carolina data.

History of South Carolina Schools

•   Click to download this informative PDF for a thorough history of schools in South Carolina. Original work written by Levona Page and John Norton, who served as the first executive of CERRA which was then known as the South Carolina Center for Teacher Recruitment. Some information has been deleted, revised, and/or updated by Virginia Bartels, who was one of the original authors of the Teacher Cadet curriculum Experiencing Education.

Historical Teacher Cadet Data

• The program was piloted in four high schools in 1985 - 1986 and quickly grew to 28 schools in its second year, all of which still offer the Teacher Cadet Program.
• More than 50,000 students have participated in the program in its 26 year history.

2010-2011 Teacher Cadet Data

• 157 South Carolina high schools offered 176 sections of the course.
• 2,457 students in South Carolina participated in the program – 529 students were males and 799 were non-white students.
• After completing the course, 41% of the Teacher Cadets chose teaching as the career they plan to pursue after college.
• After completing the course, nearly 1 out of every 5 (18%) Teacher Cadets who plan to teach indicated they were undecided or planned to pursue a different career before taking the course.
• 74% of Teacher Cadets reported that the course was very effective in helping them formulate a positive perception of the teaching profession. 94% said that the course was either very effective or somewhat effective in doing so.
• During the 2010-11 school year, 71% of all public high schools in South Carolina had Teacher Cadet Programs.
• 39% of Teacher Cadet sites were located in schools identified as Geographic Critical Need Schools for 2010-11 (relative to the SC Teacher Loan Cancellation Program). These schools meet at least one of the following criteria: absolute rating of below average or at-risk (29 sites); teacher turnover rate of 20% or more for the past 3 years (31 sites); and/or poverty index of 70% or more (48 sites).

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