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Dr. Marilyn Jager Adams holds a Ph.D. from Brown University in cognitive psychology and developmental psychology and is internationally regarded for her research and applied work in the area of cognition and education. Recipient of the American Educational Research Association's Sylvia Scribner Award for outstanding research, Dr. Adams's contributions include the landmark book, Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print (MIT Press). On the applied side, she is Senior Literacy Advisor for Instruction for PBS's "Between the Lions," as well as senior author of "Fox in a Box," an award-winning, standards-based literacy assessment kit. Dr. Adams has also written/designed three empirically proven instructional programs: on thinking skills for middle school students, on reading and writing for elementary school students, and on linguistic awareness for emergent readers and special needs students. Dr. Adams is cited in the 2000 Politics of Education Yearbook as one of the five most influential people in the national reading policy arena. | 