Cinthia Garcia (BAE '19) found her calling as a teacher in high school, but she didn’t discover her niche until she was in college.

Garcia, who is graduating from Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education (bilingual education and English as a second language), is ready to start her career and transform lives.

Gene V. Glass is a research professor in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Regents Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University. Having coined the term “meta-analysis,” Glass has made enormous contributions to education statistics, educational policy and the social sciences. His work — particularly, “Benefits of Psychotherapy” (1980), about psychotherapy outcome studies — is said to have changed psychology.

“Special education is an excellent field to get into,” said Jay Johnson, recruitment and retention specialist in the Arizona Department of Education. “Not only are there jobs available, but special education has real advantages for teachers. You get a range of ability levels for kids, so you get to really stretch yourself that way. There are all kinds of opportunities ... whether you want to work in elementary school or high school, in a self-contained classroom or another scenario like a pull-out classroom.

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