Edward J. Kame'enui
Professor and Director,
Institute for Development of Educational Achievement,
University of Oregon
Dr. Edward J. Kame'enui is an international authority on teaching reading. He currently directs the Center for Improving Reading Competence Using Intensive Treatments Schoolwide (Project CIRCUITS), a national reading research center designed to examine a three-tiered prevention model for beginning reading problems. Dr. Kame'enui also leads the National Center for Special Education Research, which sponsors research aimed at improving education results and services for students with disabilities.
Dr. Kame'enui has published numerous college textbooks on topics related to teaching reading, curriculum design, and managing classroom behavior. He has also published research articles in Reading Research Quarterly, Scientific Studies of Reading, American Educational Research Journal, and the Journal of Learning Disabilities. He also served on the advisory boards for the PBS television show "Between the Lions" and WETA's "Reading Rockets."
- Reading and the Smell of Mortality: How We Read and Why
- Getting to Scale in Professional Development: Weighing the Issues and Challenges
- Building and Implementing a Schoolwide Reading Model for Each and All in K–3: Ode to Goethe, Feynman, and Miss Piggy
- The Teaching of Reading: Beyond Vulgar Dichotomies to the Science of Causality
