Grover (Russ) Whitehurst
Director of the
Institute
of
Education
Sciences & Assistant Secretary of Education,
U.S.
Department of Education
Jack Shonkoff
Chair, The National Scientific Council on the
Developing Child; Co-Editor: From
Neurons to Neighborhoods
Edward Kame'enui
Commissioner for Special Education Research, U.S. Department of
Education; Director, Institute for the Development of Educational
Achievement (IDEA), University of Oregon
G. Reid Lyon
Past Chief of the Child Development & Behavior
Branch of the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
(NICHD) at the National Institute of Health (NIH)
Timothy Shanahan
Chair National Early Literacy Panel, President (2006) International
Reading Association, Member of National Reading Panel; Director,
Center for Literacy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Mel Levine
Co-Chair and Co-Founder,
All Kinds of Minds; Author: A
Mind at a Time, The Myth of Laziness
&
Ready or Not Here Life Comes
Louisa Moats
Reading Scientist, Sopris West; Author:
Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling
Marilyn Jager Adams
Senior Scientist, Soliloquy
Learning; Author: Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print
Maryanne Wolf
Director, Center for Reading & Language Research; Professor of
Child Development, Tufts
University
Keith Stanovich
Chair, Applied Cognitive Science,
University
of
Toronto; Author: Reading
Matters: How Reading Engagement Influences Cognition
Sally Shaywitz
Neuroscientist, Department of Pediatrics, Yale;
Author: Overcoming Dyslexia
Charles A. Perfetti
Professor of Psychology & Linguistics; Senior Scientist and
Associate Director,
Learning
Research & Development
Center, University
of
Pittsburgh
Paula Tallal
Board of Governor's Professor of Neuroscience, Rutgers
University; Co-Founder of Scientific Learning Corporation
Christof Koch
Professor of Computation and
Neural Systems, Caltech - Author: The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach
Zvia Breznitz
Professor, Neuropsychology of Reading & Dyslexia, University of
Haifa, Israel
Mark T. Greenberg
Director,
Prevention
Research
Center, Penn State Dept. of Human Development &
Family Studies; CASEL Leadership Team
Michael Merzenich
Chair of Otolaryngology, Integrative Neurosciences, UCSF;
Member National
Academy of
Sciences; Co-Founder of Scientific Learning
Corporation & Posit Science Corporation
Keith Rayner
Distinguished
Professor, University of
Massachusetts; Author: Eye Movements in
Reading
and Information Processing
Pat Lindamood & Nanci Bell
Principal Scientists & Co-Founders of Lindamood-Bell
Learning Processes
Anne Cunningham
Director, Joint Doctoral Program in Special
Education, University of California- Berkeley; Historian of the
Society for the Scientific Study of
Reading
Donald L. Nathanson
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at Jefferson
Medical College; Founding Executive Director of the Silvan S.
Tomkins Institute;
Author: Shame
and Pride
&
Knowing Feeling
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Richard
Olson
Past President, Society for the Scientific Study of
Reading; Professor, Department of Psychology,
University of
Colorado
Steve
Reder
Professor & Chair, Department of Applied Linguistics, Portland
State
University
Robert
Kail
Professor of Psychological
Sciences, Purdue University, Indiana
Susan
H. Landry
Director of the Center for Improving the Readiness of Children for
Learning & Education (CIRCLE); Chief, Division of
Developmental Pediatrics,
University
of
Texas
at Houston
Siegfried
Engelmann
Professor of Instructional
Research,
University
of
Oregon; Creator of Direct Instruction
Nancy
J. Cohen
Director of Research, Hincks-Dellcrest Institute; Professor,
Department of Psychiatry,
University of
Toronto; Author: Language Impairment and
Psychopathology in Infants, Children, and Adolescents
Ruth
Ann Atchley
Assistant Professor, Brain & Behavior, Cognitive Psychology
& Cognitive Neuroscience, University
of
Kansas
Kathryn Au
Professor of Education,
University of Hawaii
at Manoa
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Richard Venezky
Past Unidel Professor of Educational Studies
& Professor of Computer,
Information Sciences & Linguistics, University of Delaware; Author: The American Way of
Spelling: The Structure and Origins of American English Orthography
John
Searle
Mills Professor of the Philosophy
of Mind & Language, University of California-Berkeley; Author: Mind,
A Brief Introduction
David
Abram
Cultural
Ecologist and Philosopher; Author: The
Spell of the Sensuous
Marketa Caravolas
Director, Bangor Dyslexia Unit, Bangor University, Wales
England
Author: International Report on Literacy Research,
Language-specific influences of phonology and orthography on
emergent literacy
Todd
Risley
Professor
Emeritus of Psychology, University of Alaska; Co-Author: Meaningful
Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children
Thomas
Cable
Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin; Co-Author: A History of the English Language
Johanna
Drucker
Chair of Media Studies,
University of Virginia;
Author: The Alphabetic Labyrinth
Terrence
Deacon
Cognitive
Anthropologist, University of California-Berkeley; Author: The
Symbolic Species:The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
John
H. Fisher
Medievalist;
Retired Professor Emeritus of English, University of
Tennessee; Leading authority on the development of the written
English language; Author: The
Emergence of Standard English
Malcolm Richardson
Chair, Dept. of English, Louisiana State University; Research:
The Textual Awakening of the English Middle Classes, 1380-1520
Guy
Deutscher
Professor, Department of Languages and Cultures of Ancient
Mesopotamia, University of Leiden in Holland; Author: Unfolding
Language - an evolutionary tour of mankind's greatest invention
Leonard
Shlain
Physician;
Best-Selling Author:
The Alphabet vs. The Goddess
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David
Olson
Professor
Emeritus, Applied Cognitive Science, Ontario Institute for Studies
in Education, University of Toronto; Author: The World on Paper: The Conceptual
and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading
Doug
Engelbart
2000 National Medal of Technology, Computer & Internet Pioneer,
Inventor of the 'Mouse'
Ray
Kurzweil
1999 National Medal of
Technology, Inventor, OCR
& Speech Recognition
Selmer
Bringsjord
Director, Rensselaer AI &
Reasoning (RAIR) Laboratory - Dept. of Cognitive Science
(Chair), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Robert
Logan
Professor
of Physics, University of Toronto; Author: The
Alphabet Effect
Frank
Moore Cross, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Hebrew & Other
Oriental Languages, Harvard University
Bruce
Thornton
Professor of Greek
History; Author: Greek
Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization
Naomi
Baron
Linguist; Director,
TESOL, American University;
Author: From Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and
Where It's heading
Walter
Isaacson
CEO,
Aspen Institute; Author: Benjamin Franklin: An
American Life
John
Gable
Past Executive Director, Theodore
Roosevelt Association
Steve
Bett
Linguist; Editor, Simplified Spelling Journal
Peter
Krass
Author: Carnegie
R.
Kent Rasmussen
Mark Twain scholar; Author: Mark Twain A to Z, The Quotable Mark Twain
Edward
Rondthaler
Chairman, American Literacy
Council; Author: Alphabet Thesaurus - A Treasury of Letter Design
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James
J. Heckman
Nobel Prize Winner in Economic Sciences 2000; Professor, University of Chicago; Lead Author:
The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children
Eric Hanushek
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution of Stanford
University; Chairman, Executive Committee for the Texas Schools
Project;
Member, Koret Task Force on K–12 Education
Chris
Doherty
Former Director,
Reading
First Program, U.S. Department of Education
Alex
Granzin
School
District Psychologist, Past President, Oregon
School Psychologists Association
Peter
E. Leone
Director, National Center on
Education, Disability & Juvenile Justice
Arthur
J. Rolnick
Senior Vice President & Director of Research,
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; Co- Author:
The
Economics of Early Childhood Development
Robert
Sweet
Co-Founder, National Right
to Read Foundation; Retired Professional Staff, U.S. House of
Representatives
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Barbara
Kapinus
Senior Reading Policy Specialist/Analyst, National Education Association
E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Distinguished Visiting
Professor, Hoover Institution; Co-Founder, Core Knowledge
Foundation; Professor Emeritus of Education and Humanities at the
University of Virginia; Author: Cultural
Literacy, The Schools We Need and Why We Don’t Have Them, The
Knowledge Deficit.
George
Farkus
Professor
of Sociology, Demography & Education, Penn State
Richard
Allington
Reading Researcher; President, International Reading Assoc.;
Author: Big Brother and the
National Reading Curriculum: How Ideology Trumped Evidence
John
Strucker
Research Associate, National Center for the Study of Adult Learning
& Literacy, Harvard University
Sandra Feldman
Past
President, American Federation of Teachers
Brenda L.
Welburn
Chief Executive Officer, National Association of State Boards
of Education; Author: The American Tapestry:
Educating a Nation
Norton Hadler
Professor of Medicine & Microbiology/Immunology, Attending
Rheumatologist, University of North Carolina Hospitals;
Author: The Last Well Person
Sam
Redding
Executive Director, Academic Development Institute; Lead Author: The
Effects of Comprehensive Parent Engagement on Student Learning
Outcomes
Susan
Neuman
Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
Martin
Haberman
Distinguished Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction,
University of Wisconsin-Madison; Creator, National Teacher Corp.
David
Bloome
Professor of Literacy, Language & Culture, Ohio State
University; Past
President, National Council of Teachers of English
Madhu
Viswanathan
Director, Marketplace Literacy Project, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Patrick W. O'Leary
Employee Relations
Manager, UPS Airlines
Patrick
Groff
Professor Emeritus, San Diego State University; National Right to Read
Foundation Board Member
& Senior Advisor; Author:
Private Sector Alternatives for
Preventing Reading Failure
Stephen
Krashen
Professor
Emeritus, University of Southern
California; Author: The Power
of Reading, Second Edition: Insights from the Research
Earl
B. Oremus
Headmaster,
Marburn Academy
Lesley
M. Morrow
Past
President,
International Reading Association
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Nancy
Hennessy
President (2003-2005), International Dyslexia Association
James
Wendorf
Executive Director, National Center for Learning
Disabilities
Robert
Wedgeworth
President, ProLiteracy
Rick
Lavoie
Learning Disabilities Specialist, Creator: How Difficult Can This Be?: The F.A.T. City
Workshop &
Last One Picked, First One Picked On: The Social Implications of Learning
Disabilities
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Mark
Ginsberg
Executive Director, National Association for the Education of
Young Children
Sharon
Darling
President, National Center
for Family Literacy
Sue
Stepleton
President, National Center for Parents as Teachers
Carol
H. Rasco
President,
Reading is Fundamental
Nancy Tidwell
Founder and President, National Association for the Education of
African American Children with Learning Disabilities
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Award winning poet, author and literacy
advocate; Author:
The Importance of a Piece of Paper
Mark
Weist
Executive
Director, Center for School Mental Health Assistance
Sarah
Greene
Executive Director, National Head Start Association
Gwedolyn Cartledge
Professor of Special Education, Ohio State University; Author:
Teaching Urban Learners
Judy
Wurtzel
Former Executive Director, Learning First Alliance; Senior Fellow, Aspen Institute
Kimberly
Thompson
Director, Kids Risk Project; Associate
Professor of Risk Analysis &
Decision Science, Department of Health Policy & Management, Harvard School of
Public Health
Claiborne
Barksdale
CEO, Barksdale Reading
Institute
Robin
Willner,
Director,
Corporate Community Relations, Reinventing Education, IBM
Brock
and Fernette Eide
Physician-parents with a
national referral practice for children with learning
difficulties. Their book, The Mislabeled Child, is due
out Fall 2006.
Krista
Kafer
Senior
Education Policy Analyst, The Heritage Foundation
Jones Kyazze
Past
Director, UNESCO Literacy
Bruce
Perry
Senior Fellow, Child Trauma Academy
Daniel Wagner
Director, International
Literacy Institute
Sylvia
O. Richardson,
Past President,
International Dyslexia Association;
Distinguished
Professor Emeritus of Communication Sciences & Clinical Professor
of Pediatrics at the University of South Florida
Thomas
Viall
Past Executive Director, International Dyslexia Association
David
W. Kirkpatrick
Senior Education Fellow,
U.S. Freedom Foundation
Susan
Sandler
President, Justice Matters
Susan Carrell
Adult Learning Center Coordinator,
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky
Monty
Neill
Executive
Director, The
National
Center
for Fair & Open Testing (Fair Test)
Nayo
Watkins
Founder & Director, Mekye Center
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