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David Riley
- Executive Director
David
Riley, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Urban Special Education Leadership
Collaborative, a national network of education
administrators responsible for policy, procedural, and programmatic decision-making
affecting children and youth with disabilities in urban school districts.
The Collaborative initiated in the spring of 1994 under the auspices of
Education Development
Center,
Inc., in Newton, Massachusetts. It is a national version
of the Massachusetts Urban Project, a state-wide network that Dr. Riley
founded in 1979 and that continues
to provide leadership development and cross-district networking opportunities
for urban special education leaders in that state.
For more than 25 years, Dr. Riley has served as an organizational and management consultant to local, state, and federal education agencies. In addition, Dr. Riley serves in a leadership position on several federally-funded initiatives, the National Institute for Urban School Improvement, the National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems, and Education Policy Reform Research Institute, to name a few. For the past ten years, Dr. Riley has also served as Educational Co-Chair of the Summer Institute on Critical Issues in Urban Special Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
David can be reached at: driley@edc.org.
