Esther Lindström

How State Dual Licensure Policies Relate to the Number of Prepared Teachers in Special Education Jihyun Kim, Esther R. Lindström, and Kimberly McFadden a Department of Education, Sungshin Women’s University, Seoul, Korea; b Department of Special Education, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA; c Iowa Reading Research Center, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA ABSTRACT As more students with disabilities are educated in inclusive classrooms, dual licensure policies have emerged as a promising strategy to improve the quality of special education teaching. However, there are concerns that these policies might worsen the chronic shortage of special education teachers by introducing additional requirements for teaching candidates. This study seeks to explore these concerns by examining the association between state dual licensure policies and the number of prepared special education teachers. We analyzed Title II data in conjunction with policy enactment data collected from various sources in three states. Our findings indicate that, overall, the policy was not significantly associated with the number of prepared teachers. We discuss these results in the context of their implications for future research and policy. ARTICLE HISTORY Received 28 January 2025 Revised 10 December 2025 Accepted 12 December 2025 KEYWORDS Teacher licensure; special education; dual licensure policies

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Does ADHD cause learning difficulties?
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• consistent effects from ADHD to later reading comprehension
Shared risk factors explain most overlap—except for comprehension, where ADHD predicts slower growth.
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RFK Jr. revealed that he personally ordered the CDC to change its website to push the widely debunked claim that vaccines and autism are linked

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@afgilmour.bsky.social addresses a major barrier in this line of research: figuring out who special education teachers are from the data.

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