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Article: Does teacher education produce better special education teachers?
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- Exceptional Children
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- March 22, 2005
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The shortage of special education teachers, always an issue of concern, has become a major problem affecting the integrity of the field. Boe, Cook, Bobbitt, and Terhanian (1998) investigated the licensure or certification status of almost 50,000 special and general education teachers and documented a chronic annual shortage of fully licensed teachers in special education, a level that was almost twice the number in general education. The fact that record numbers of licensed special education teachers are leaving the field exacerbates the problem (Brownell & Smith, 1992). The causes of this attrition are varied (Boe, Barkanic, & Leow, 1999). However, teachers and ...