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Are you highly qualified? The plight of effective special educators for students with learning disabilities.

Publication: Learning Disability Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-JUN-05 		Format: Online - approximately 702 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Are you highly qualified? The plight of effective special educators for students with learning disabilities.(COMMENTARY)

Article Excerpt
The phrase highly qualified teacher no longer means what it used to. Highly qualified teachers used to mean those who were fully certified and extraordinarily effective in teaching students. Now we must be cautious about using the term, because some fully certified and extraordinarily effective educators may no longer be highly qualified when guidelines for No Child Left Behind (NCLB) are applied. NCLB requires states to ensure their teachers are highly qualified by the end of school year 2005-2006.

According to NCLB, highly qualified teachers will have a bachelor's degree, be fully certified, and prove they know the content they teach. NCLB limits that...

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