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Article: Assessing the special education faculty shortage: the crisis in California--a statewide study of the professoriate.
- Article from:
- Teacher Education Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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The imbalance of supply and demand for special education faculty continues to be a national concern (Smith, Pion, Tyler, & Gilmore, 2003; Smith, Pion, Tyler, Sindelar, & Rosenberg, 2001). While the number of earned doctoral degrees awarded in special education in the United States has remained steady since 1992, at approximately 250 per year, fewer than half of recent graduates chose to pursue careers in higher education. With the number of vacancies for special education junior faculty averaging over 200 per year, more than one third of all job searches fail, resulting in the elimination of some positions, thus diminishing the nation's training and research capacity ...