Dr. Barbara Foorman

Professor of Education and Director of the Florida Center for Reading Research, Ph.D.
2209E STB
(850) 644-0777
bfoorman@fcrr.org
Curriculum Vitae (doc)

Barbara Foorman, Ph.D., is the Francis Eppes Professor of Education and Director of the Florida Center for Reading Research at Florida State University. During 2005, Dr. Foorman served as the Commissioner of Education Research in the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education. From 1978 to 1996 Dr. Foorman was Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Houston and from 1996-2006 she was Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Center for Academic and Reading Skills at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Foorman has over 100 publications in the area of reading and language development. She serves on editorial boards of several journals, national advisory committees, and national consensus committees on reading, and has been principal investigator of several federally-funded grants concerning early reading interventions, scaling assessment-driven instruction, and literacy development in Spanish-speaking children. Additionally, her centers have provided professional development and technical assistance to school districts in Texas, Florida, and the eastern seaboard receiving Reading First funds. Dr. Foorman has been actively involved in outreach to the schools and to the general public, having chaired Houston ISD’s Committee on a Balanced Approach to Reading, and having worked to revise and validate the Texas Primary Reading Inventory, used in 96% of the school districts in Texas and in several other states.


				Dr. Barbara Foorman Professor of Education and Director of the Florida Center for Reading Research, Ph.D. 2209E STB (850) 644-0777 bfoorman@fcrr.org Curriculum Vitae (doc) Barbara Foorman, Ph.D., is the Francis Eppes Professor of Education and Director of the Florida Center for Reading Research at Florida State University. During 2005, Dr. Foorman served as the Commissioner of Education Research in the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education. From 1978 to 1996 Dr. Foorman was Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Houston and from 1996-2006 she was Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Center for Academic and Reading Skills at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Foorman has over 100 publications in the area of reading and language development. She serves on editorial boards of several journals, national advisory committees, and national consensus committees on reading, and has been principal investigator of several federally-funded grants concerning early reading interventions, scaling assessment-driven instruction, and literacy development in Spanish-speaking children. Additionally, her centers have provided professional development and technical assistance to school districts in Texas, Florida, and the eastern seaboard receiving Reading First funds. Dr. Foorman has been actively involved in outreach to the schools and to the general public, having chaired Houston ISD’s Committee on a Balanced Approach to Reading, and having worked to revise and validate the Texas Primary Reading Inventory, used in 96% of the school districts in Texas and in several other states.