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Trends And Issues In Bilingual Special Education Teacher Preparation: A Literature Review, Peishi Wang, Sara B. Woolf
Trends And Issues In Bilingual Special Education Teacher Preparation: A Literature Review, Peishi Wang, Sara B. Woolf
Journal of Multilingual Education Research
Teachers represent the largest school impact on student learning, yet the national professional teacher workforce has been described as inadequately prepared to meet the academic, linguistic, social, and other educational needs of the majority of the nation’s public school student population. Moreover, youngsters from diverse linguistic, cultural, and ability backgrounds continue to be overrepresented in specialized school settings. These interrelated phenomena are influenced by multiple complex sociocultural and other factors (i.e., historical, economic, political). Among these are reported steady growth in the population and enrollment of students from non-English speaking, diverse cultural backgrounds in the nation’s public schools, perennial low …