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Our Education Advisory Board
The members of our Education Advisory Board are involved deeply in the research of both education and
reading development. As of March 1, 2003, the members of our Education Advisory Board were:
Robert Calfee, Ph.D. Dr. Calfee has chaired our Educational Advisory Board since our business started in
1995. Dr. Calfee is Dean of the School of Education at the University of California, Riverside and has been a
distinguished researcher and author in the area of reading and reading development for the past 30 years. In
addition, he is professor emeritus at Stanford University’s School of Education, as well as a member of the board
of the Society for Scientific Study of Reading. Dr. Calfee is editor emeritus for Education Assessment and the
Journal of Educational Psychology. Dr. Calfee has published eight books and over 150 articles in journals such as
Educational Psychologist, the Journal of Reading, Issues in Education and Assessment in Education.
Richard Casabonne, M.Ed. Mr. Casabonne is the President of Casabonne Associates, Inc., an educational
research, strategy and development firm that he founded in 1986. Mr. Casabonne served as the President of our
Education and Training Group from July 2001 to April 2002 and was a member of our board of directors from
August 2001 to April 2002. He has served in a number of senior executive positions for major educational
publishing companies, including as Senior Vice President of Planning and Business Development for Harcourt,
Inc. and as President and Chief Executive Officer of Steck-Vaughn Company, a publisher of supplementary
education materials for kindergarten through adult education. In addition, Mr. Casabonne has held senior
management positions at Grolier, Inc., McGraw-Hill Educational Resources and Random House School
Division, and he has taught at both the K-12 and college levels.
Anne Cunningham, Ph.D. Dr. Cunningham is an associate professor of cognition and development at the
University of California, Berkeley and the Director of the Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education. She is
also a member of the board of the Society for Scientific Study of Reading and a member of the board of directors
for American Educational Research Association, Division C. Dr. Cunningham has received the International
Reading Association’s Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award and has published over 35 articles in journals
such as Development Psychology, Journal of Educational Psychology, Reading and Writing, and The American
Educator. Dr. Cunningham is a former classroom teacher and reading resource specialist, having taught preschool
and kindergarten through third grade for 10 years. She serves on state and national committees surrounding
literacy development and instruction such as the U.S. Reading Excellence Grant expert panel for 2000 and 2001.
Karen Fuson, Ph.D. Dr. Fuson is a professor at the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern
University. She is a mathematics educator and cognitive scientist whose work focuses on children’s
mathematical understanding and the classroom conditions that can facilitate such understanding. Her past work
has contributed to the understanding of children’s counting and understanding of whole number, fraction, and
decimal computation, especially for children living in poverty. Dr. Fuson is currently a contributing editor of the
Journal of Mathematical Behavior and serves as an editorial board member of Mathematical Cognition,
Mathematical Thinking and Learning. She has reviewed proposals for the National Science Foundation since
1978. Dr. Fuson served on the recent Mathematics Learning Committee of the National Research Council. She
has published over 100 articles in books, handbooks, encyclopedias, and journals such as Cognition and
Instruction, Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Elementary
School Journal, Cognitive Psychology, and Child Development.
Barry Munitz, Ph.D. Please see “—Management” for Dr. Munitz’s biographical information. Dr. Munitz
also serves as a director on our board of directors, is a member of the Audit Committee of the board of directors
and is chairman of the Compensation Committee of the board of directors.
Ruth Nathan, Ph.D. Dr. Nathan is an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley, extension
program and is a classroom teacher. Dr. Nathan has co-authored many books on literacy, including: Beginnings
of Writing, Classroom Strategies That Work, Writers Express, Writers in the Classroom, The Great Source
Daybooks and Source Books for 3rd through 5th grades, and Write on Track, Write Away. Additionally, she has
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