Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development is the education school of Vanderbilt University,a private research university in Nashville,Tennessee. Founded in 1875,Peabody had a long history as an independent institution before merging with Vanderbilt University in 1979. The school is located on the Peabody Campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville. The academic and administrative buildings surround the Peabody Esplanade and are southeast of Vanderbilt's main campus.
Haskins Laboratories,Inc. is an independent 501(c) non-profit corporation,founded in 1935 and located in New Haven,Connecticut,since 1970. Haskins has formal affiliation agreements with both Yale University and the University of Connecticut;it remains fully independent,administratively and financially,of both Yale and UConn. Haskins is a multidisciplinary and international community of researchers that conducts basic research on spoken and written language. A guiding perspective of their research is to view speech and language as emerging from biological processes,including those of adaptation,response to stimuli,and conspecific interaction. Haskins Laboratories has a long history of technological and theoretical innovation,from creating systems of rules for speech synthesis and development of an early working prototype of a reading machine for the blind to developing the landmark concept of phonemic awareness as the critical preparation for learning to read an alphabetic writing system.
Patricia A. Alexander is an educational psychologist who has conducted notable research on the role of individual difference,strategic processing,and interest in students' learning. She is currently a university distinguished professor,Jean Mullan Professor of Literacy,and Distinguished Scholar/Teacher in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology in the College of Education at the University of Maryland and a visiting professor at the University of Auckland,New Zealand.
Philip E. Rubin is an American cognitive scientist,technologist,and science administrator known for raising the visibility of behavioral and cognitive science,neuroscience,and ethical issues related to science,technology,and medicine,at a national level. His research career is noted for his theoretical contributions and pioneering technological developments,starting in the 1970s,related to speech synthesis and speech production,including articulatory synthesis and sinewave synthesis,and their use in studying complex temporal events,particularly understanding the biological bases of speech and language.
Andrew Calvin Porter is the former Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and also serves as Penn GSE's George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education. Porter is an educational psychologist and psychometrician who has made significant contributions to education policy and has published widely on educational assessment and accountability,teacher decisions on content and how curriculum policy effects those decisions,opportunities for students to learn and achievement indicators,measuring content and standards alignment,teacher professional development,educational research methodology,and leadership assessment. Porter's current work centers on the VAL-ED project,a research-based evaluation tool that measures the effectiveness of school leaders by providing a detailed assessment of a principal's performance funded by the US Department of Education/IES. Porter also works on two projects funded by the National Science Foundation that focus on the effects of teacher professional development on improving teaching and learning.
Camilla Persson Benbow is a Swedish-born (Scania) American educational psychologist and a university professor. She studies the education of intellectually gifted students.
Susan Shurin is a senior adviser at the National Cancer Institute. From 2006–2014,she served as Deputy and Acting Director of the National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
Maryanne Wolf is a scholar,teacher,and advocate for children and literacy around the world. She is the UCLA Professor-in-Residence of Education,Director of the UCLA Center for Dyslexia,Diverse Learners,and Social Justice,and the Chapman University Presidential Fellow (2018-2022). She is also the former John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service,Director of the Center for Reading and Language Research,and Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University. She is a permanent academician in the Pontifical Academy of Science. She was recently made an Honorary Advisory Fellow on the United Sigma Intelligence Association.
Reading Research Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell. The current editors are Robert T. Jiménez and Amanda P. Goodwin. The journal is one of three journals published on behalf of the International Literacy Association.
John T. Guthrie is a researcher and scholar in the area of student motivation as it relates to literacy.
Nicholas Hobbs was an American psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association (APA).
Linnea Carlson Ehri is an American educational psychologist and expert on the development of reading. She is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Educational Psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Ehri is known for her theory of orthographic mapping,which describes the process of forming "letter-sound connections to bond the spellings,pronunciations,and meanings of specific words in memory" that underlies fluent reading. As a consequence of orthographic mapping,written words are tightly linked with their pronunciations and meanings in memory and can be recognized by sight.
Lynn Fuchs is an educational psychologist known for research on instructional practice and assessment,reading disabilities,and mathematics disabilities. She is the Dunn Family Chair in Psychoeducational Assessment in the Department of Special Education at Vanderbilt University.
Pamela R. Jeffries is an American professor of nursing and serves as dean of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. She is nationally recognized as an expert in nursing,with a focus on simulation and education.
Tommie Morton-Young is an educator,activist,author,and historian. After becoming the first African-American to graduate from George Peabody College for Teachers,she went on to work as a librarian and professor in both education and library science. Her human rights activism and work preserving African American history has earned her recognition by a number of organizations in Tennessee.
Laura M. Justice is a language scientist and expert on interventions to promote children's literacy. She is the EHE Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology at Ohio State University,where she also serves as the Executive Director of the A. Sophie Rogers School for Early Learning.
H. Carl Haywood was an American psychologist who researched motivational influences on learning and development,intellectual and cognitive development,cognitive education,learning,neuropsychology,and dynamic/interactive assessment of learning potential.
Young-Suk Kim is an educational psychologist known for her research on the science of reading. She is Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Education at the University of California,Irvine.
Alfred A. Baumeister was an American psychologist and professor at Vanderbilt University,known for his research on intellectual disabilities and his advocacy for such research.
Amy Lynne Shelton is a U.S. cognitive psychology professor and academic administrator serving as the director of the Center for Talented Youth since 2022. She is a professor and associate dean for research at the Johns Hopkins School of Education.
