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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Planning Committee Members and Staff
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Planning Committee Members and Staff
Pages 103-106
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She serves as a board member for the International Research Foundation for English Language Education and for Senior Service America, and is a member of the advisory committee of the Hispanic Family Literacy Institute. She has taught linguistics and education courses for George Mason University, Georgetown University, the George Washington University, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and the University of Virginia.
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His research interests within sociolinguistics include the development of African American vernacular English, the effects of dialect differences on reading success, and the causes of increasing diversity among American dialects. He is a senior author of the remedial language arts program PORTALS, which is designed for struggling readers who are speakers of African American vernacular English.
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Department of Health and Human Services and as the developer and director of the Early Learning and School Readiness Research Program for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health. She has held faculty appointments at George Mason University and Georgia State University in Atlanta.
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