Barbara R. Foorman

Barbara R. Foorman is emeritus professor of education, director emeritus of the Florida Center for Reading Research, and past director of the Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast at Florida State University. She is an internationally known expert in reading and in 2005 she served as commissioner of the National Center for Education Research at the Institute of Education Sciences. Foorman has developed literacy assessments for Texas and Florida and curricula in spelling, phonemic awareness, and vocabulary. She has extensive experience conducting large-scale, multi-site projects on federal grants and contracts related to literacy assessment and intervention.