A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

This panel of scholars will identify, assess, and synthesize the literacy research knowledge base related to the education of language minority children and youth. Members of the National Literacy Panel (NLP) and their support contractors, SRI International and the Center for Applied Linguistics (SRI/CAL), will produce a comprehensive report that evaluates and synthesizes the research literature and provides research-based recommendations to guide educational practice and inform educational policy.

The formation of the 13-member Panel represents an unprecedented opportunity for OERI to further advance knowledge on language minority children and youth. Accordingly, members of the NLP will review and synthesize scientific research from education and related cognitive science disciplines. Members of the NLP will also solicit input from representatives of the research, policy and practitioner communities. This effort will ensure that the NLP review and recommendations for improving future research methodologies, syntheses, and practice are based on the highest standards of inquiry. OERI expects that members of the National Literacy Panel will produce a report that provides clear, evidence-based conclusions and recommendations for audiences concerned with the education of language minority children and youth.

The 2-year contract to SRI/CAL extends a research initiative launched in FY 1999. That initiative aims to develop new knowledge on the critical factors that influence the development of English-language literacy (reading and writing) competencies among children whose first language is Spanish (DELSS). The DELSS effort comprises a partnership between the Office of Educational Research and Improvement , United States Department of Education, and the Child Development and Behavior Branch of the Center for Research for Mothers and Children, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health. The partnership seeks to stimulate systematic, programmatic multidisciplinary research to increase understanding of the specific cognitive, linguistic, sociocultural, and instructional factors, and the complex interactions among these factors, that govern the acquisition of English reading and writing abilities for Spanish-speaking children and youth. Members of the NLP will review the broad research literature on literacy for language minority children and youth.

Members of the National Literacy Panel:

• Dr. Timothy Shanahan, Chair
  Professor
  College of Education
  University of Illinois
  Chicago, IL 60607
  E-mail: shanahan@uci.edu
  
  
• Dr. Isabel Beck
  Professor
  School of Education and Learning Research and Development Center
  University of Pittsburgh
  Pittsburgh, PA 15260
  E-mail: jbeck@pitt.edu
  
  
• Dr. Margarita Calderon
  Senior Research Scientist
  Center for Research on the Education Of At Risk Students (CRESPAR)
  El Paso, Texas 79936
  Johns Hopkins University and the Success For All Foundation
  E-mail: mecalde@aol.com
  
  
• Dr. David Francis
  Professor
  Department of Psychology
  University of Houston
  Houston, TX 77204
  E-mail: dfrancis@uh.edu
  
  
• Dr. Georgia Earnest Garcia
  Professor
  Department of Curriculum and Instruction
  College of Education
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Champaign, IL 61820
  E-mail: gegarcia@uiuc.edu
  
  
• Dr. Fred Genesee
  Professor
  Psychology Department
  McGill University
  Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1
  Canada
  E-mail: genesee@ego.psych.mcgill.ca
  
  
• Dr. Esther Geva
  Professor
  Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
  University of Toronto
  Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6
  Canada
  E-mail: egeva@oise.utoronto.ca
  
  
• Dr. Claude Goldenberg
  Professor
  Department of Teacher Education
  California State University
  Long Beach, CA 90840
  E-mail: cgolden@ucla.edu
  
  
• Dr. Michael Kamil
  Professor
  School of Education
  Stanford University
  Stanford, CA 94305
  E-mail: mkamil@stanford.edu
  
  
• Dr. Keiko Koda
  Professor
  Department of Modern Languages
  Carnegie Mellon University
  Pittsburgh, PA 15231
  E-mail: kkoda@andrew.cmu.edu
  
  
• Dr. Gail McKoon
  Professor
  Cognition, Psychology and Psycholinguistics
  Northwestern University
  Swift Hall, Room 113
  Evanston, IL 60208
  E-mail: g-mckoon@nwu.edu
  
  
• Dr. Robert Rueda
  Professor
  Division of Learning and Instruction
  Rossier School of Education
  University of Southern California
  Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0031
  E-mail: rueda@mizar.usc.edu
  
  
• Dr. Linda Siegel
  Professor
  Educational and Counseling Psychology and Special Education
  Faculty of Education
  University of British Columbia
  Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4
  Canada
  E-mail: Linda.siegel@ubc.ca
  
  
• Dr. Robert Slavin
  Co-director, CRESPAR and CEO, The Success For All Foundation
  Johns Hopkins University
  Baltimore MD 21204
  E-mail: rslavin@SuccessForAll.net
  

Principal Project Contacts:
SRI/CAL

• Dr. Diane August, Principal Investigator, CAL daugust@msn.com
  
• Dr. Marilyn Gillespie, Project Manager, SRI International Gillespie@wdc.sri.com
  

• Gil Narro Garcia, Project Manager, NIEARS gil.garcia@ed.gov
  
• Patricia Gore, Director, NIEARS pat.gore@ed.gov
  
• Dr. Valerie Reyna, Senior Research Advisor, OAS valerie.reyna@ed.gov
  

Last modified July 25, 2002 (skh)