Jeanne R. Paratore

Professor of Education
BS, Elementary Education and Sociology, Syracuse University; MEd, Reading Education, University of New Hampshire, Durham; EdD, Reading & Language, Boston University

Dr. Jeanne R. Paratore has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, and a Title 1 director, and is now a faculty member at Boston University. In 1989, Dr. Paratore joined the Boston University/Chelsea, Massachusetts School Partnership, a comprehensive urban school reform effort that provided her many opportunities to collaborate with classroom teachers to improve classroom assessment and instruction of literacy. As part of this work, Dr. Paratore founded and now serves as advisor to the Intergenerational Literacy Project, a family literacy program that aids immigrant parents and their children. Her work related to these projects and others is described in numerous monographs, book chapters, and journal articles. She has also authored or edited six books. Among them, After Early Intervention, Then What? Teaching Struggling Readers in Grades Three and Beyond, was identified as one of the International Reading Association’s ten best-selling books, and a second edition is now in preparation. In 2002, she completed a three-year term as a member of the International Reading Association’s Board of Directors. Dr. Paratore is a frequent speaker on literacy instruction and has presented at local, national, and international reading and educational research conferences as well as in school districts throughout the United States. Recent presentations have addressed topics related to grouping students for instruction in literacy, supporting struggling readers after grade three, providing evidence-based instruction in literacy, supporting content area learning with effective instruction in literacy, and supporting home-school partnerships.