May 28, 1999

2 Colleges Train Black Men to Work in Special Education

By JULIANNE BASINGER

Bethune-Cookman and the U. of South Florida produce teachers who can be role models

In a special-education classroom at Holly Hill Elementary School, a dozen children are working quietly. One little boy now and then glances up, intent on studying every move of his new student teacher, a young man wearing a sweater and tie. When the teacher, Alexander Derival, tells the child to move on to his next assignment, the boy leans over his