Preparing Prospective Teachers to Work in the Social and Emotional Worlds of Students With Learning Disabilities

As the United States moves from a simpler society dominated by a manufacturing economy to a much more complex world based largely on information technologies and knowledge work, its schools are undergoing a once-in-a-century transformation. Never before has the success, perhaps even the survival, of nations and people been so tightly tied to their ability to learn. Consequently, our future depends now, as never before, on our ability to teach.