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Catherine Snow

professor, education, HGSE

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~snow/

Catherine Snow is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from McGill and worked for several years in the linguistics department of the University of Amsterdam. [more]

Early Childhood Assesment: Should We Test Preschoolers?

December 2, 2008

Education experts discuss the increased use of formal testing for preschool aged-children.

Adolescent Literacy: Research, Policy, and Practice

Experts discuss the adolescent literacy crisis and new research about effective literacy instruction for students beyond the primary grades.

Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms

Rebecca Wheeler

November 20, 2007

Rebecca Wheeler details how teachers can build on students' existing knowledge of everyday English, as a springboard to new knowledge: professional English. Typically, when students write "My goldfish name is Scaley" or "Mama walk to the store," teachers correct student grammar.

Becoming Literate: Baltimore Early Childhood Project

Robert Serpell, vice chancellor at the University of Zambia, discusses the results of his five-year study tracing literacy development in pre-kindergarten through third-grade children from low- and middle- income families of European and African heritage in Baltimore.

"L" is for Literacy: Reading with Children

Harvard Graduate School of Education celebrates the work of Dr. Seuss, with a forum to discuss children's literacy, the effects of parent-child and child self-motivated book reading, and child literacy programs.

Reading for Understanding: Toward an R & D Program in Reading Comprehension

Author: Catherine Snow

Publisher: RAND Corporation (2002)

Binding: Paperback, 160 pages

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