Dorothy S. Strickland is the State of New Jersey Professor of Reading at Rutgers University. She was formerly the Arthur I Gates Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. A former classroom teacher, reading consultant and learning disabilities specialist, she is a past president of the International Reading Association (ERA). She is active in the National Council of Teachers of English, and the National Association for the Education of Young Children. She received IRA’s Outstanding Teacher Educator of Reading Award and is the current president of the IRA Reading Hall of Fame. Included among her publications are: Families, Poems Celebrating the African American Experience; The Administration and Supervision of Reading Programs; Emerging Literacy, and Language, Literacy, and the Child. She was the 1994 recipient of the NCTE Rewey Bell Inglis Award as “Outstanding Woman in the Teaching of English”. Her latest book, Teaching Phonics Today, is published by the International Reading Association.
Dorothy Strickland, Ph.D.
strickla@rci.rutgers.edu
dstickl@aol.com
