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Welcome
Mary
Lynn Boscardin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
175 Hills-South
School of Education
University of Massachusetts Amherst 01003
Voice:
413-545-1193
Fax: 413-577-0566
Email:
mlbosco@educ.umass.edu
Biographical
Notes
Mary Lynn Boscardin received her Ph.D. in Special Education Administration
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. Since joining
the University of Massachusetts faculty in 1985, she has directed the
Special Education Administration Program and is currently Coordinator
of the Special Education Program.
As Project Director for two U.S. DOE OSEP funded projects, Linkages
($620,000) and, currently, Crossroads ($720,000), Professor
Boscardin has established a cutting-edge program for training
administrators of special education. These students participating in
these special education leadership projects acquire experience in
research, college teaching, practicum supervision, and professional development,
which includes the dissemination of innovations and policy changes
in the field to inservice special educators and administrators and legislators.
This program is both state and NCATE accredited.
Dr. Boscardin is Editor of the Journal of Special Education Leadership,
a journal of the Council for Exceptional Children’s (CEC) Division
of the Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE). Journal
of Special Education Leadership is a journal dedicated to issues in special
education administration, leadership, and policy issues. The primary
goal of Journal
of Special Education Leadership is to provide both practicing administrators
and researchers of special education administration and policy with relevant
tools and sources of information based on recent advances in administrative
theory, research, and practice. The main objective of the Journal
of Special Education Leadership is to foster research, learning,
teaching, and practice in the field of special education administration
and to encourage the extension of special education administration knowledge
to other fields so to enhance knowledge about the process of managing
special education service delivery systems, as well as reflect on techniques,
trends, and issues growing out of research on special education that
is significant.
Dr. Boscardin's research interests include special education finance,
services delivery models for students with disabilities, system-wide accountability
issues, and the development and implementation of special education policies.
Dr. Boscardin is the author of several research articles, monographs,
and book chapters which are the focus of the aforementioned topics. Most
recently, Dr. Boscardin has co-authored an edited book with Pano Rodis
and Andrew Garrod, entitled Learning Disabilities and Life Stories (2001,
Allyn & Bacon). The book is an anthology of stories written
by college students who share interesting and poignant autobiographies
of what it was like for their parents and them to navigate the educational
system with a learning disability paired with scholarly essays by prominent
researchers in the fields of learning disabilities, adolescent development,
counseling, and diversity.
Dr. Boscardin has served on national committees for CASE, CEC, and AERA.
Dr. Boscardin also currently serves on review boards for the Journal
of Educational Finance and Multiple Voices, a journal of
the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division of Culturally and
Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Learners. In the past, she served on
the review board of the Special Education Leadership Review until
the publication was discontinued.
In addition to experience in higher education, Dr. Boscardin also
holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology
from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of
Wisconsin Milwaukee, respectively, and is ASHA-CCC, SLP,
certified. She has worked as a speech
and language pathologist, classroom teacher, and special education administrator.
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