Alvermann appointed to ILA's research panel; literacy journal
Donna Alvermann, the Omer Clyde and Elizabeth Parr Aderhold Professor in Education and Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, has been appointed to the International Literacy Association’s (ILA) Literacy Research Panel (LRP) for a three-year term.
She will also start her two-year appointment as the “Policy and Practice: Remix” columnist for the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.
“My role is to be controversial, but only insofar as research supports my position,” said Alvermann. She will analyze and write about current news events, such as the passage and implications of the Every Student Succeeds Act, which was recently signed into law, replacing the No Child Left Behind Act.