The focus on high standards has created a culture of accountability that calls for high quality teaching to help each child reach his or her potential. ... Within all of education, shortages in personnel have been reported to be most chronic in mathematics, science, and special education (Boe, Cook, Bobbitt, & Terhanian, 1998). ... Critics charge that alternate methods of licensing special educators have undermined both the professionalization of education (Zeichner & Schulte, 2001) and efforts of traditional preparation programs to correct inequities between the supply of teachers and the dem...

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