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The Nation's Report Card - Reading

How are students across the country doing in reading? The Department of Education will give us a snapshot March 24 of where things stand with the release of the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress - NAEP.

The University of Maryland has the experts who can provide the analysis and background your coverage of this story demands. Our reading experts from the College of Education are listed alphabetically. Feel free to contact them directly.


Number of experts found: 6

 
Peter P. Afflerbach

Professor

Curriculum & Instruction

Expertise Key Words:
Children and reading - the best ways to develop a love of reading. How the Harry Potter series helps get kids to read.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3159

afflo@umd.edu

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Jennifer D. Turner

Assistant Professsor

Curriculum & Instruction

Expertise Key Words:
Elementary reading education, including; (a) urban literacy education; (b) effective reading instruction for African American students; (c) culturally responsive literacy instruction; (d) preservice teacher education. Great summer reading tips. Developing a love of reading in kids.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 0433

jdturner@umd.edu

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Martin L. Johnson

Professor Emeritus

College of Education

Expertise Key Words:
School Reform; minority student achievement; standardized testing; teaching teachers of mathematics.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4554

mljohnso@umd.edu

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Olivia N. Saracho

Professor

Curriculum & Instruction

Expertise Key Words:
Early childhood education and teaching social values to young children; fathers and their role in a child's literacy development as well as home literacy for fathers of bilingual children.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3155

ons@umd.edu

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Mariam Jean Dreher

Professor

Curriculum & Instruction

Expertise Key Words:
What works to help students become great readers in elementary school and ways to help them understand and write about what they have read.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3158

mjdreher@umd.edu

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Marilyn J. Chambliss

Associate Professor

Curriculum & Instruction

Expertise Key Words:
Reading Education, High Quality Teaching of Reading, Improving the Quality of Textbook Writing, Reading in Science, Reading in Social Studies

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7410

marilyn@umd.edu

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