Martha L Thurlow
- Senior Research Associate
- thurl001@umn.edu
- Phone
- +1 612-624-4826
- Fax
- +1 612-624-0879
- Address
- Institute On Community Integration
Masonic Inst For The Developing Brain [map]
2025 E River Pkwy
Rm 1-333
Minneapolis, MN 55414-3604
Martha Thurlow is a Senior Research Associate at the National Center on Educational Outcomes. In this position, she addresses the implications of contemporary U.S. policy and practice for students with disabilities and English Learners, including national and statewide assessment policies and practices, standards-setting efforts, and graduation requirements. Dr. Thurlow has conducted research and technical assistance for the past 45 years in a variety of areas, including assessment and decision making, learning disabilities, early childhood education, dropout prevention, effective classroom instruction, and integration of students with disabilities in general education settings.
Dr. Thurlow has published extensively on all of these topics, authoring numerous books and book chapters, and publishing more than 200 articles and reports. She served as co-Editor of Exceptional Children from 1995 to 2003, the research journal of the Council for Exceptional Children, and is currently an associate editor for numerous journals.
Projects
Products
Topics
- Education practices (K12 and transition)
- Dropout prevention and student engagement
- Inclusive education
- Academic standards
- Instructional strategies
- Literacy
- Student learning strategies
- Transition planning
- IEP development
- Accommodations and supports
- Specific life stage
- Children
- Adolescents and young adults
- Educational accountability and assessment
- Accommodations and supports
- Accountability
- Assessment (large-scale, alternate)
- Diplomas and Graduation Requirements
- IDEA
- State Performance Plans and Annual Performance Reports (SPP/APR)
- Evaluation of education programs
- Progress monitoring
- Assessment of individuals
- Quality outcomes
- Specific disability
- Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
- Emotional/behavioral disorder (EBD)
- Hearing and/or vision loss
- Intellectual/developmental disability (IDD)
- Learning disabilities
- Multiple disabilities
- Other health impairment
- Physical disability
Activities
- Research
- Training and professional development
- Technical assistance
- Evaluation
- Dissemination
- Outreach