Dorothy S. Strickland, Ph.D.
Dorothy S. Strickland, Ph.D., Samuel DeWitt Proctor Professor of Education,
Emerita, Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey; [email protected]
Dr. Strickland is the former president of the International Reading Association and
Reading Hall of Fame. She received the International Reading Association’s Outstanding
Teacher Educator of Reading Award, the National-Louis University Ferguson Award for
Outstanding Contributions to Early Childhood Education, and the William S. Gray Citation
of Merit. She served on the Common Core State Standards Validation Committee.
Her publications include Essential Readings on Early Literacy, Literacy Leadership in Early Childhood,
Bridging the Literacy Achievement Gap: 4—12,
and Administration and Supervision of Reading Programs.