Aydin Yucesan Durgunoglu, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She has worked as a high school teacher and as a college instructor of English as a foreign language. Her research addresses child literacy development in different languages as well as in bilingual contexts, adult literacy, and English literacy development of recent immigrants to the United States. Since 1995, as a consultant for the Mother Child Education Foundation in Istanbul, Dr. Durgunoglu has led the efforts to create an innovative adult literacy program in Turkey, which has now reached about 100,000 individuals across the country.
Claude Goldenberg, PhD, is Professor of Education at Stanford University. He has worked as a junior high school teacher and as a first-grade teacher in a bilingual elementary school. His research interests include literacy development among English language learners, home-school connections with language-minority families, processes and dynamics of school change, and classroom literacy interventions for middle elementary and middle school students. Dr. Goldenberg was a National Academy of Education Spencer Fellow and is a corecipient of the Albert J. Harris Award from the International Reading Association.
