Author: P. David Pearson

I gave this lecture at Vanderbilt University in 2008.  The thesis is that it often takes many years for educational research to exert its influence on policy, curriculum, and classroom practice.  I used several historical and then current examples to illustrate this often fractious relationship.  … Read the rest

I delivered the annual Jeanne Chall Lecture in October of 2015 on my account of the evolution of reading comprehension as both a theoretical and instructional phenomenon.  You can also access this as a pdf print account.

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