How should Texas prepare teachers so that their students benefit the most? This question is hard to answer, but important to address, particularly in the critical areas of high school mathematics and science. The goal of this project was to assess the quality of science and mathematics teachers prepared by UTeach and other university-based teacher preparation programs. The primary way this was done was examining the test scores in Algebra I and Biology of high school students who had UTeach or standard university-prepared teachers, and comparing the scores with those of students taking the same class from other teachers in the same school. Findings indicate that Texas students in Algebra I and Biology learn more when their teachers come from standard university programs than when their teachers come from alternative certification programs. This is true both for UTeach, a model program at eight universities across Texas, as well as all standard university educator preparation programs in Texas.