Faculty positions are commonly based on the person's credentials, publishing, grants, and research. Institutions rarely focus on faculty's curriculum and instructional backgrounds: the growing concern is, why? The purpose of this study was to examine higher education leaders' assumptions, perceptions, and expectations about how to make faculty…

This paper presents an analysis of how school mathematics credentials, particularly calculus, coupled with elite college degrees can allow for presumed proficiencies, resulting in acceptance to a selective alternative route program (SARP) for secondary mathematics. However, such credentials do not guarantee deep mathematics knowledge nor effective…

This study examines two longstanding but thinly evidenced claims regarding credentialing requirements for teachers in the early grades (pre-K, K, 1, 2, and 3): 1) that elementary education (ELED) educator standards, under which many U.S. early grade teachers are prepared, address early instructional practices less adequately than early childhood…