Your Holiday-Edition Special Education Reading List
December 24, 2018
By: Christina Samuels
Source: Education Week
Winter break is a perfect time to catch up on some special education articles that you may have missed in 2018. Here’s a list of some articles that grabbed readers’ attention in the past 12 months.
Why Special Educators Really Leave the Classroom: Hands down, more people read this article than anything else I wrote this year. Several months later, I wrote additional stories that extend the theme: Shortage of Special Educators Leads to Classroom Pressures and Special Education Plagued by Faulty Teacher Data. In the teacher data story, I particularly want to draw attention to the work of Paul Sindelar, a special education professor at the University of Florida, and his colleagues. They’ve done research on the difference between states that have large teacher shortages compared to states that have smaller shortages. Unsurprisingly, teachers in low-shortage states are paid more, have smaller class sizes, and spend more per pupil.