Margo Mastropieri has been a professor of special education at Purdue University for the past 12 years. Mastropieri has focused her research and writing on content-area instruction for students with learning disabilities (LD). Along with her colleague Thomas Scruggs, Mastropieri has written numerous publications on designing and implementing effective content instruction for students with disabilities. She is well known for her research on cognitive strategy instruction and for innovative science instruction for students with LD. Dr. Mastropieri earned her undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Massachusetts and her doctorate at Arizona State University.
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