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Biographical Sketch

JAMES S. VACCA is the Chair of Special Education and Literacy at C.W. Post College in Long Island. Prior to teaching at C.W. Post, he taught graduate courses in Literacy at Adelphi University, lona College, Russell Sage College, and the State University of New York at Albany. In addition, for more than ten years he taught Developmental Reading and Writing Skills courses to college level inmates for the Skidmore College University Without Walls Program at Great Meadow Prison, a maximum security prison in Comstock, New York. Dr. Vacca was also a school teacher and administrator in several New York Public schools and residential treatment centers for more than thirty years.