The state also requires reading coursework for all teacher candidates: 12 credit hours for early childhood and elementary special education candidates and six credit hours for secondary special education candidates. (nctq.org)
Provide a broad liberal arts program of study to elementary special education candidates, and require that they pass the same content test as general education teachers. (nctq.org)
As a public elementary special education teacher in New York City, the last eight years (but really since No Child Left Behind in 2001) of test based accountability have been much like living under a gotcha regime. (morecaucusnyc.org)