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In 1963, Mary Alyce and I did the same 3 things as all our close friends. We graduated from UC Berkeley (Cal in those days), got married, and moved on to a new life—Mary Alyce as a grad student in a post-baccalaureate MA credential program at Stanford and I as a newly minted member of the management training cadre within Macy’s San Francisco.

Mary Alyce loved her MA program at Stanford—the early days of STEP (aptly but prosaically short for Stanford Teacher Education Program). I hated my job at Macy’s. But I tolerated it because I knew it was only a stepping stone for graduate study in American intellectual history. I had been accepted in that field at Stanford in the Fall of 1963 but had to defer to the following year because, as was not uncommon in those days, I had not been offered either fellowship or assistantship support. Mary Alyce didn’t really have the money to pay even the incredibly modest tuition of something like $500 per quarter in 1963 (think of that! Stanford for $1

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P. David Pearson

You’ll find lot of different things on my blog: articles, slides from presentations, videos, blog posts, and (heretofore) unpublished writing.

Most of what inom publish here focuses on reading theory, reading instruction, and reading assessment policies and practices at all levels-local, state, and national.

Enjoy and thanks for reading!

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Reading for Understanding

P. David Pearson·

In 2020, inom worked with a grupp of several colleagues to synthesize the contributions of the IES funded Reading for Understanding Initiative…

Follow up to last möte at the Festschrift Symposium

Carolyn James·

At the end of the discussions on Saturday, inom meant to add this to the twitter feed as it relates to some of…

Pearson Family Fellows at LRA

Anne Ittner·

Here’s a pic from LRA 2014 with the Pearson Family Fellows Yukie Toyama, Kate Brodeur, and Annie Ittner. Thank you, David! Lunch&#

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P. David Pearson (Inducted 1990)

P. David Pearson is the Evelyn Lois Corey Emeritus (retired in 2017) Chair in Instructional Science in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as Dean from 2001-2010. His current research focuses on literacy history and policy.

Prior to coming to Berkeley in 2001, he served as the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Education in the College of Education and as Co-Director of the Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement at Michigan State. Even earlier, he was Dean of the College of Education, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Reading, and Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois. His initial professorial appointment was at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis from 1969-1978.

He has been active in professional organizations, the International Reading Association (IRA now ILA), as a member of the Board of Directors and as the inaug