Getting Smarter

Getting Smarter
Getting Smarter

The podcast where knowledge meets curiosity. Join professor Margaret Vaughn as she explores groundbreaking ideas with top scholars, aimed at sharpening our thinking. With her guests, Dr. Vaughn dives into a world of profound insights and intellectual adventure. Our journey to getting smarter starts here.

  1. S02E04 (15). Karen Wixson, Ph.D.

    10月4日

    S02E04 (15). Karen Wixson, Ph.D.

    Dr. Karen Wixson, Professor Emeritus of Education, retired from active faculty status at the the University of Michigan's Marsal School in 2011. Wixson received her bachelor of science degree in behavioral disabilities from the University of Wisconsin in 1972 and her master of science in education from SUNY-Binghamton in 1975. She earned her master's degree in reading education in 1978 and her doctor of philosophy degree in reading education in 1980, both from Syracuse University. Professor Wixson was appointed assistant professor at the University of Michigan in 1980, promoted to associate professor in 1985, and promoted to professor in 1991. She served as dean of the Marsal Family School of Education from 1998 to 2005. Wixson has published widely in the areas of literacy curriculum, instruction, and assessment in books and journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Elementary School Journal, Review of Research in Education, and the Handbook of Reading Research. She is also an author on the Scott Foresman reading program and co-author of a popular text on the assessment and instruction of reading and writing problems. Professor Wixson co-directed the federally funded Michigan English Language Arts Framework standards project, and served as co-director and principal investigator in the Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA). She has been a long-time consultant to the National Assessment of Educational Progress reading tests, and recently served as a member of several National Research Council committees and as a member of the extended work group for the Common Core English-Language Arts Standards. She served as a member of the Board of Directors of both the National Reading Conference and the International Reading Association and is currently co-chair of the Reading Association's Commission on Response to Intervention.

    56 分钟
  2. S02E03 (14). Tim Rasinski, Ph.D

    9月27日

    S02E03 (14). Tim Rasinski, Ph.D

    Timothy Rasinski is a professor of literacy education at Kent State University and director of its award winning reading clinic. He has written over 200 articles and has authored, co-authored or edited over 50 books or curriculum programs on reading education. He's published numerous best-selling books with Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education, and has also authored books for Scholastic. His scholarly interests include reading fluency and word study, reading in the elementary and middle grades, and readers who struggle. His research on reading has been cited by the National Reading Panel and has been published in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Reading Psychology, and the Journal of Educational Research. Dr. Rasinski is the first author of the fluency chapter for the Handbook of Reading Research. Dr. Rasinski served a three year term on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association and was co-editor of The Reading Teacher, the world's most widely read journal of literacy education. He has also served as co-editor of the Journal of Literacy Research. Dr. Rasinski is past-president of the College Reading Association and he has won the A. B. Herr and Laureate Awards from the College Reading Association for his scholarly contributions to literacy education. In 2010, Dr. Rasinski was elected into the International Reading Hall of Fame. Prior to coming to Kent State, Timothy Rasinski taught literacy education at the University of Georgia. He taught for several years as an elementary and middle school classroom and Title I teacher in Nebraska. Tim is a veteran of the US armed forces.

    53 分钟
  3. S01E11. Patricia Anders, Ph.D.

    7月3日

    S01E11. Patricia Anders, Ph.D.

    Patricia (Patty) Anders holds the Jewell Lewis Distinguished Professor of Reading in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies, College of Education, the University of Arizona. She received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976. Dr. Anders’ research and scholarship focuses on secondary school student’s language and literacy development, particularly in the content areas and reading comprehension; teacher’s beliefs, theories and practices, especially as related to the teaching of literacy across the curriculum/academic literacies and to school leadership; and adult, family, community and workplace literacies.  She is the co-author of Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas, and the co-editor of three books, Understanding Readers’ Understanding, Literacy Development of Students in Urban Schools:  Research and Policy, and the Handbook of Reading Disabilities.  Her journal publications include the award-winning article “The relationship between teachers’ beliefs and practices in reading comprehension” in the American Educational Research Journal and others in leading journals in the field.  She co-edited the Journal of Literacy Research, a journal of the Literacy Research Association. She is an elected member of the Reading Hall of Fame and served as Treasurer. She is also a Fellow of the National Council Research in Language and Literacy and served as President. She is Past President of the Literacy Research Association (formerly the National Reading Conference) and has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association (currently the International Literacy Association). She also served as the secretary of the American Education Research Association’s Division C and the Chair of the Basic Reading Research Special Interest Group. She was awarded the Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award from the Graduate College, University of Arizona and the Outstanding Faculty Service/Outreach Award from the College of Education.

    54 分钟
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The podcast where knowledge meets curiosity. Join professor Margaret Vaughn as she explores groundbreaking ideas with top scholars, aimed at sharpening our thinking. With her guests, Dr. Vaughn dives into a world of profound insights and intellectual adventure. Our journey to getting smarter starts here.

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