Dr. Paul Sindelar is a Professor of Special Education at the University of Florida.  His recent research concentrates on the special education labor market and its implications for policymakers and educators. He has written extensively on teacher certification, especially alternative routes to certification. He is currently working with colleagues at Penn, Johns Hopkins, UF, and the Bureau of Economic and Business Research to identify and quantify variables that have contributed to the reduction in employment numbers for special education teachers in the past 3 years.