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Doctoral Programs in Special Education

What Can We Do to Recruit Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students?

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Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today. President Barack Obama Individuals involved in the education of children with special needs are concerned about the shortage of personnel in higher education in the field of exceptionality. This has been true for the past quarter century. In the early 1990s, researchers had noted that for over a decade, authorities in the field of special education have been shouting out loud about the shortage of, and need for, personnel in special education (Sindelar, Buck, Carpenter, and Wantanabe 1993; Smith and Pierce 1995). Calls for attention to this issue continue today. Wasburn-Moses (2008) stated: “despite the growing demand for professionals with doctoral degrees in special education, doctoral programs are not producing enough graduates to fulfill this need” (p. 259). Addition–ally, educators are equally concerned about the quality and design of doctoral special education programs across the United States. As the number of children with special needs continues to increase, school districts must respond to the needs of teaching and preparing these young individuals for society.

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  1. East Carolina University in the Special Education Program in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, East Carolina University, North Carolina, USA

    Diane Rodriguez (Associate Professor)

  2. Department of Mathematics, Science, and Instructional Technology Education, East Carolina University, North Carolina, USA

    Kenneth Luterbach (Assistant Professor)

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  1. Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan, USA

    David M. Callejo Pérez

  2. Florida International University, Florida, USA

    Stephen M. Fain

  3. Florida International University, Florida, USA

    Judith J. Slater

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Rodriguez, D., Luterbach, K. (2011). Doctoral Programs in Special Education. In: Pérez, D.M.C., Fain, S.M., Slater, J.J. (eds) Higher Education and Human Capital. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-418-8_10

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