John Strucker Lecture Rescheduled
Dr. Strucker's lecture on Improving Instruction for Adult Intermediate Readers has been rescheduled for Thursday, April 19, 9:30 to 11:30 AM at The READ Center in Richmond.
John Strucker is one of the most highly influential leaders in the field of adult literacy and reading in the U.S. today. For the past ten years he has been Research Associate at the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), and a Lecturer in the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE), where he teaches a laboratory practicum course, "Developing Reading in Adults and Older Adolescents." Dr. Strucker received his Doctorate from Harvard GSE in 1995. He is a member of the National Institute for Literacy's Adult Reading Expert Group.
To register for this lecture, please click on this link. As soon as you are registered, you will be sent a confirmation and directions to The READ Center. If you have questions, please contact Catherine Norrell at 800-237-0178 or norrellch@vcu.edu.
Dr. Strucker's interest in adult literacy began when he worked as a labor and community organizer in Chicago in the 1970s. Before joining NCSALL, he taught adult literacy and ESL for 11 years at the Community Learning Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializing in the diagnostic assessment and teaching of adults with reading difficulties.
During his tenure at NCSALL, Dr. Strucker has been the Principal Investigator on three large-scale research projects funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences: the "Adult Reading Components Study," a cluster analysis of the reading strengths and needs of 955 adult literacy and ESL students; "Components and the International Adult Literacy Study (IALS)," a latent class analysis of the component skills of 1,084 IALS Level 1, 2, and 3 participants; and "Improving Instruction for Adult Intermediate Readers," an intervention study testing an adaptation of the Boys Town Reading Program with 275 adult learners.
Dr. Strucker's other interests include teacher-training in adult education, the application of technology to literacy learning, the development of adult literacy assessment tools, and family literacy.