Rethinking Shortages in Special Education: Making Good on the Promise of an Equal Opportunity for Students with Disabilities

Autor/inn/en	Mason-Williams, Loretta; Bettini, Elizabeth; Peyton, David; Harvey, Alexandria; Rosenberg, Michael; Sindelar, Paul T.
Titel	Rethinking Shortages in Special Education: Making Good on the Promise of an Equal Opportunity for Students with Disabilities
Quelle	In: Teacher Education and Special Education, 43 (2020) 1, S.45-62 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0888-4064
DOI	10.1177/0888406419880352
Schlagwörter	Special Education Teachers; Teacher Shortage; Students with Disabilities; Poverty; Disadvantaged Schools; Rural Schools; Urban Schools; Teacher Persistence; Teaching Conditions; Minority Group Students; Student Placement; Nontraditional Education; Labor Turnover; Court Litigation; Teacher Recruitment; Teacher Salaries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Special education; Teacher; Teachers; Sonderpädagoge; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Lehrermangel; Student; Students; Disability; Disabilities; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Behinderung; Armut; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Urban area; Urban areas; Stadtregion; Stadt; Lehrbedingungen; Unterrichtsbedingungen; Schülerpraktikum; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Rechtsstreit; Lehrerrekrutierung; Lehrerbesoldung; Lehrervergütung
Abstract	In this article, the authors describe the complexity of special education teacher (SET) shortage, how shortage undermines equal educational opportunity, and strategies that school districts and state and federal governments have used to combat them. The authors consider the economic consequences of shortage and describe how school budgets are burdened by turnover and, in some cases, litigation. The authors consider specific aspects of SET shortages, including the problems of staffing high-poverty urban and rural schools, recruiting and retaining teachers of color, and staffing alternative educational placements. The authors then consider more general factors related to shortage, including the valence of teaching as a profession, attrition, working conditions, and compensation. The authors describe how broad policy-based interventions, such as federal spending on personnel preparation and alternative route entrées to teaching, have largely failed to remedy SET shortage. Finally, the authors posit that SET shortage cannot be addressed successfully without improving working conditions and differentiating compensation for shortage area teachers and teachers working with struggling students. Although special education cannot achieve such sweeping change alone, the time seems ripe for moving forward on this important agenda. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01