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This volume offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of the national crisis in special education staffing. The editors and authors bring together innovative research, policy analysis, and systems thinking to propose theoretically sound, empirically validated, and sustainable solutions. Through a blend of empirical studies and conceptual frameworks, the volume highlights the interconnected factors contributing to workforce instability. The authors provide theoretical frameworks for conducting systems thinking using informed workforce research as well as actionable strategies for educators, administrators, and policymakers to recruit, develop, improve, and sustain the special education workforce.
“What sets this volume apart is its systems approach: rather than treating workforce issues as isolated problems, it examines how interconnected policies, practices, and structures shape the field’s capacity for meaningful change. The book is an impressive achievement, and it is one the field of special education research has needed for a long time.”
Nathan Jones, associate professor, Boston University
“This text offers the field of special education a fresh approach to identifying and addressing persistently wicked workforce problems. The editors and authors employ a brilliantly integrated framework that includes systems thinking, and implementation and improvement science to infuse clarity into complex systems. As a special education teacher educator and leader of a center focused on workforce issues, these insights are applicable for aligning research, preparation, practice, and policy.”
Erica D. McCray, Associate Dean, Personnel Affairs & Community Engagement at the University of Florida College of Education
“This volume provides a welcomed addition to the professional literature that will be a valuable resource for researchers, teacher educators, policy makers, and others as they strive to improve the education and continuing professional learning of special education teachers to support enhanced classroom practice and improved student outcomes.”
James McLeskey, Professor Emeritus, University of Florida
“A key reference book on the state of the special education workforce. A thorough and well documented analysis of the long-standing special education workforce crisis.”
Naomi Zigmond, University of Pittsburgh
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