Deborah S. Reed, Ed.D.
Deborah Reed, Ed.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at the
University of Texas at El Paso. She has spent 19 years working with adolescents as a middle and
high school teacher, technical assistance provider, and researcher. While at the Meadows Center
for Preventing Educational Risk, Dr. Reed served as Principal Investigator of the Texas Adolescent
Literacy Academies, which resulted in the training of more than 21,000 content area and intervention
teachers. She has also assisted the Florida Center for Reading Research and the IRIS Center
at Vanderbilt in developing teacher-friendly resources for addressing adolescent literacy issues in
both general and special education settings. Her publications have appeared in Scientific Studies of
Reading, Reading Psychology, Preventing School Failure, Research in Middle Level Education, Learning
Disabilities Research and Practice, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Learning Disability Quarterly,
and Educational Assessment.