How Education Professionals Become Special Education Professionals

The University of Kansas School of Education has set the bar when it comes to prepping special education professionals for the special situations they will encounter in their classrooms.

The KU School of Education has a lengthy record of civil rights advocacy as well as classroom success. They have been at the leading edge of special education before the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act was passed and continue to lead in the space as U.S. News & World Report’s No. 1 Department of Special Education among public universities.

“The department has been engaged in a civil rights and social justice agenda on behalf of children with disabilities and their families,” explains Elizabeth Kozleski, professor and chair of KU’s Department of Special Education. “It’s been here from the beginning, and it’s producing research every year that helps further that agenda.”