Timothy Shanahan | University of Illinois at Chicago (original) (raw)

Timothy Shanahan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he is Founding Di¬rector of the UIC Center for Literacy. He is also Visiting Research Professor at Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Previously, he was director of reading for the Chicago Public Schools. He is author/editor of more than 200 publications including the books, Teaching with the Common Core Standards for the English Language Arts, Early Childhood Literacy, and Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners. His research emphasizes the connections between learning to read and learning to write, literacy in the disciplines, and improvement of reading achievement.

Professor Shanahan is past president of the International Reading Association. He received a presidential appointment to serve on the Advisory Board of the National Institute for Literacy. Shanahan took a leadership role on the National Reading Panel (NRP), convened by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the request of Congress to evaluate research on methods for teaching reading (third most influential education policy document according to the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center). He chaired two other federal research review panels: the National Literacy Panel for Language Minority Children and Youth, and the National Early Literacy Panel, and was a member of the English Language Arts Work Team for the Common Core State Standards. He is on the editorial review boards of Reading Research Quarterly, Scientific Studies in Reading, Journal of Literacy Research, Journal of Educational Psychology, Reading Psychology, The Reading Teacher, and Reading and Writing), and has reviewed research proposals for the National Science Foundation (USA), Institute of Education (Hong Kong), Economic and Social Research Council (UK), Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Canada), Czech Science Foundation (Czech Republic), and the National Research Fund (Luxembourg). He is co-principal investigator of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Title I Study of Implementation and Outcomes: Early Childhood Language Development funded by the Institute of Education Sciences.

Shanahan received the William S. Gray Citation for Lifetime Achievement and the Albert J. Harris Award for outstanding research on reading disability from the International Reading Association (IRA), the Milton D. Jacobson Readability Re¬search Award, the Amoco Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Uni¬versity of Delaware’s Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement. In 2009, he was selected as researcher of the year at the University of Illinois at Chicago (Social Sciences/Humanities). He co-developed Project FLAME, a family literacy program for Latino immigrants, which received an Academic Excellence Award from the U.S. Department of Education, and his article, “The Common Core Ate My Baby” received the Distinguished Achievement Award for Learned Article from the Association of Educational Publications (2013). His research and testimony are cited in federal case law (Memisovski v. Maram, No. 92 C 1982, lauded by the American Academy of Pediatrics as “an enormous victory” for children’s health care). He received his Ph.D. at the University of Delaware in 1980. His research and development projects have attracted approximately $6 million in funding from government agencies and the philanthropic community. He was inducted to the Reading Hall of Fame in 2007, and is a former first-grade teacher. For more information, visit his blog: www.shanahanonliteracy.com
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