Pathways and Outcomes for Early-Career Teachers With Teaching Assistant Experience
Educational Policy: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Policy and Practice
Published online on July 20, 2026
Abstract
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We explore North Carolina’s teaching assistant (TA)-to-teacher pipeline by assessing outcomes for early-career teachers with and without prior TA experience. We find that those with prior TA experience make up a meaningful percentage of beginning teachers ...
We explore North Carolina’s teaching assistant (TA)-to-teacher pipeline by assessing outcomes for early-career teachers with and without prior TA experience. We find that those with prior TA experience make up a meaningful percentage of beginning teachers ...