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Diane August

D.August

Senior Research Scientist, Center for Applied Linguistics

Associate Director, CREATE

Principal Investigator, Project QuEST: Quality English and Science Teaching

 

Diane August, Ph.D., is currently a Senior Research Scientist affiliated with the Center for Applied Linguistics located in Washington DC. She is the Principal Investigator for a large federally-funded study investigating the development of literacy in English-language learners, Co-Principal Investigator for a federally-funded randomized evaluation of English immersion and transitional bilingual programs, and Co-Principal Investigator at the National Research and Development Center on English language Learners. She was Staff Director for the National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth. She has been a Senior Program Officer at the National Academy of Sciences where she was study director for the Committee on Developing a Research Agenda on the Education of Limited English Proficient and Bilingual Students. Dr. August has worked as a teacher, school administrator, legislative assistant, Grants Officer for the Carnegie Corporation, and Director of Education for the Children's Defense Fund. In 1981, she received her Ph.D. in education from Stanford University, and in 1982 completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychology also at Stanford. She has published widely in journals and books.

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Featured Presentations

Dr. August presented Developing Academic Language in Middle School Science Classrooms: It's More Than Vocabulary Instruction at the 2008 CREATE conference.

 

Dr. August presented QuEST (Quality English and Science Teaching) at the 2007 CREATE conference.

 

Dr. August's webcast seminar, Building Oral Language into the Basal,can now be viewed online.

 

Dr. August's webcast seminar, Findings from the National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth, can now be viewed online.