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Advisors

Reading Rockets is guided by an advisory panel made up leading researchers and experts in the field of reading.

Dr. Lynn Fuchs
Vanderbilt University, College of Education and Human Development
Department of Special Education

Dr. Louisa Moats
Former Director, NICHD Early Interventions Project
Advisor to Sopris West Educational Services for Literacy Research and Professional Development

Dr. Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar
University of Michigan, School of Education

Dr. Louise Spear-Swerling
Southern Connecticut State University, School of Education
Department of Special Education and Reading

Dr. Julie Washington
Georgia State University
Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education

Dr. Joanna Williams
Columbia University, Teachers College

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