Findings: Broad subject preparation
The impact of Illinois' regulations on the content preparation of special education teacher candidates is not evident in our findings: Eighty percent of both undergraduate and graduate special education programs that we evaluated failed to meet this standard. In all but one of the few education schools whose preparation of undergraduate elementary teachers was relatively strong (MacMurray College, Trinity Christian College, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Western Illinois University and the University of St. Francis), ratings were much lower on the standard pertaining to the analogous preparation for special education teacher candidates. The sole exception to this pattern was the University of St. Francis.
How Illinois institutions fare on this standard
