Events
Conference
2007 CREATE Conference
Academic Language and Content:
A Focus on English Language Learners in the Middle School
Speaker Biography
DIANE AUGUST (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1981) is currently a Senior Research
Scientist at the Center for Applied Linguistics as well as a consultant 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 (CREATE). 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 was Director of Education for the Children's Defense Fund. In 1981, she received
her PhD 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.
Dr. August presented QuEST (Quality English and Science Teaching) at the 2007 CREATE Conference.