A guide to help aspiring special education teachers pass their test Twenty states require would-be special education teachers to pass various Praxis II tests for licensure. All six special education tests in the Praxis II series are covered in this book, which includes focused subject reviews and a full-length practice test for each subject assessment exam…. More >>
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Education Degree Programs Have Evolved Greatly Since The 1950s
Education degree programs used to be a lot simpler. They were comprised, primarily, of women training to teach school children in grades K-12. It was about the 1950s, when nursing and education degree programs provided women the majority of post-high school training, when those who obtained their education degrees might have even gone to work in one or two-room school houses where children in public schools prayed.
Students who obtained degrees in education and went into teaching then had smaller, less diverse, student populations to teach. The United States, long a nation of immigrants, reportedly changed after several immigration laws passed, including those in 1965 and 2000, bringing in immigrants from countries outside of Europe and more immigrants overall. Borders between nations are increasingly disappearing as the world becomes more global and people become more mobile between countries.
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