Lehigh University's College of Education
Spring 2009
JAMES R. NEWCOMER recently concluded a thirty-nine year career in public education during which he was a high school English teacher, a teacher in a residential school for blind children, a teacher of the visually impaired in Bucks County, and a director of special education and pupil personnel services. He served as the assistant superintendent in the Quakertown Community School District for seven years prior to his retirement. He is a graduate of Lebanon Valley College, the University of Pittsburgh, and earned a doctorate from Lehigh University. His research dissertation and resultant journal articles dealt with special education litigation. Dr. Newcomer co-directs Lehigh’s week-long Special Education Law Symposium each summer with Dr. Zirkel.
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