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- Title: Lessons from Special Education Research (Section I: Conceptual Frameworks for Assessing Innovation)
- Author : Teacher Education Quarterly
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 214 KB
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Although the ultimate goal of teacher education is to provide an adequate supply of highly qualified teachers for our nation's schools, many factors hinder its success. In special education, too few people enter the field, and a policy context that promotes easy entry via unconventional preparation threatens to dilute teacher quality. In this challenging and complex context, teacher educators struggle to improve their work and to assess innovations credibly. In this paper, we describe the particular position of the special education teacher education community as it attempts to provide a qualified teacher for every special education student. We begin by describing our center and the process that led to the development of a research agenda. We also provide an overview of four studies underway and how they provide insight about assessing innovations. In the last section, we discuss what we have learned thus far. The Special Case of Special Education