Dorothy Strickland is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Professor of Education at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. A former classroom teacher and learning disabilities specialist, she has authored and edited numerous publications concerning language development and reading. She received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from both Kean College of New Jersey and New York University. In 1994 she was the recipient of the National Council of Teachers of English Rewey Bell Inglis Award as Outstanding Woman in English Education. She is past president of both the International Reading Association and of its Reading Hall of Fame. She served on the national panels that produced Preventing Reading Difficulties and the RAND report Reading for Understanding.
