Martha L Thurlow

Martha L Thurlow

  • Senior Research Associate
  • Email :: thurl001@umn.edu
  • Phone :: +1 612-624-4826
  • Fax :: +1 612-624-0879
  • Address ::
    • Inst on Community Integration/NCEO
    • Room 215A PtH [map]
    • 150 Pillsbury Dr SE
    • Minneapolis, MN 55455

Martha Thurlow is the Director of 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 Language Learners, including national and statewide assessment policies and practices, standards-setting efforts, and graduation requirements. Dr. Thurlow has conducted research for the past 35 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. In 2003, she completed her 8-year term as co-Editor of Exceptional Children, the research journal of the Council for Exceptional Children, and is currently associate editor for numerous journals.

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