Tom Scruggs
Tom Scruggs is professor of special education and director of the Ph.D. in Education program, the Graduate School of Education, George Mason University. He previously served on the faculties at Utah State University and Purdue University, and as a special education teacher of students with a variety of handicapping conditions, in a variety of settings. He serves as co-editor of the research annual Advances in Learning and Behavioral Disabilities, and from 1993-1997 was co-editor of Learning Disabilities Research and Practice. He is the co-author or co-editor of 21 books and co-author of 33 chapters and more than 170 journal articles. He has served as co-director of federal research grants in the areas of test-taking skills, peer and cross-age tutoring, memory-strategy instruction, inclusive science education, and strategies for content area learning in inclusive middle school and high school classrooms.
