Professor and Chair - Education & Psychology Department
Peabody School of Education
Vanderbilt University
Daniel J. Reschly, Ph.D., is professor of education and psychology in Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, where he is chair of the Department of Special Education. From 1975 to 1998, Dan directed the Iowa State University School Psychology Program, where he achieved the rank of distinguished professor of psychology and education. Dan has published on the topics of response to intervention, special education system reform, overrepresentation of minority children and youth, and LD classification procedures. He has been active in state and national leadership roles, including president of the National Association of School Psychologists and editor of the School Psychology Review, and has delivered continuing education workshops in 46 states. Dan served on the National Academy of Sciences Panels on Standards-Based Reform and the Education of Students with Disabilities (member), Minority Overrepresentation in Special Education (member), and Disability Determination in Mental Retardation (Chair). He is co-principal investigator of the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD).