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Voltz, Deborah L.

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Diversity Issues and the Special Education Teaching Force: Advancing the Discussion

Year: 2019 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

This piece is a commentary on the papers included in the special issue on the racial/ethnic diversity of the special education teacher workforce....
Preparing Special Education Administrators for Inclusion in Diverse, Standards-Based Contexts: Beyond the Council for Exceptional Children and the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium

Year: 2010 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Special education administrators must be prepared for their leadership roles in inclusive, culturally diverse, standards-based school settings. These challenges create the need for new skills, required for effective spec...
Urban Special Education in the Context of Standards-Based Reform

Year: 2006 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

With the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, standards-based reform has taken center stage in the educational arena. Although standard setting and accountability issues affect every facet of education, the challenge...
Professional Development for Culturally Responsive Instruction: A Promising Practice for Addressing the Disproportionate Representation of Students of Color in Special Education.

Year: 2003 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

This article describes the implementation and outcomes of a teacher-directed professional development program for 33 general and special education teachers that was designed to increase the awareness of culturally influe...
Collaborative Infusion: An Emerging Approach to Teacher Preparation for Inclusive Education.

Year: 2003 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Surveyed 252 teacher preparation programs nationwide and interviewed chairpersons of programs that used collaborative infusion approaches as a means of delivering special education content in preservice teacher education...
A Final Comment on Alliance Project Success Stories.

Year: 2000 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

A review of programs supported under the federal Alliance 2000 Project stresses the value of a variety of models for the preparation of special education personnel to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diver...
Preparing Special Educators for Cultural Diversity: How Far Have We Come?

Year: 1999 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Summarizes the status of preservice special-education teachers' preparation for diversity based on a review of the special-education literature. Issues regarding the special-education literature base, special-education p...
Cultural Diversity and Special Education Teacher Preparation: Critical Issues Confronting the Field.

Year: 1998 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Presents an overview of areas related to preparing educators for diversity that have particular significance or unique implications for special education. Issues addressed include special-education eligibility determinat...
Resource Room Teacher Roles in Promoting Interaction with Regular Educators.

Year: 1990 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

This study, which compared the perceptions of 205 learning disabilities resource teachers, regular education teachers, special education coordinators, and principals, found that 73 percent of the role functions considere...