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Ellen Schiller

Program Manager, Disability Policy

Ellen Schiller, Ph.D., Manager for Disability Policy in the Center for Education and Human Services, has 25 years of experience in research and evaluation of education and social programs for children and adolescents with disabilities. Currently, she is co-principal investigator on two U.S. Department of Education studies involving a randomized trial for the Impact Evaluation of Response to Intervention Strategies (RtI) and a policy analysis of secondary datasets on the identification and outcome trends of children receiving services under IDEA.

Previously, she led the national study of state and local implementation of IDEA (SLIIDEA), collaborated with the research team for the Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study (SEELS), and served as a special assistant in the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education. In this latter position, she directed a portfolio of projects on research syntheses in special education that resulted in a book, Contemporary Special Education Research: Syntheses of the Knowledge Base on Critical Instructional Issues. Currently, she reviews research studies for the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) and serves as a content expert on the review of research on learning disabilities.

She has numerous publications on effective special education practices and programs, with a particular emphasis on school based interventions for children and youth who struggle to learn to read. Her work has been published in Exceptional Children, Journal of Educational Psychology, Teaching Exceptional Children, and Reading Research Quarterly.

Dr. Schiller received her Ph.D. in special education from Arizona State University.