Many mainstream teachers feel ill - prepared to address students who come from backgrounds vastly different than their own. (corwin-connect.com)
The decline of the student / teacher ratio was steady across the 40 - year period; moreover, as economists Eric Hanushek and Steven Rivkin have found, it was mainly growth in the pool of mainstream teachers, rather than those of administrators or special - education teachers, that accounted for the decline. (educationnext.org)
Whitaker adds that a «lack of expertise among mainstream teachers» in special needs is pushing pupils into state special schools and then into independent special schools once the state sector is full. (schoolsweek.co.uk)