Catherine Compton-Lilly

Biography

Catherine Compton-Lilly is an assistant professor in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She taught in the public schools for 18 years. She is the author of Reading Families: The Literate Lives of Urban Children (Teachers College Press, 2003), Confronting Racism, Poverty and Power (Heinemann, 2004), Rereading Families: The Literate Lives of Urban Children, Four Years Later (Teachers College Press, 2007), and editor of Breaking the Silence (IRA, 2008). Dr. Compton-Lilly has authored articles in the Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, The Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Language Arts, and several other journals. Her research interests include examining time as a contextual factor in children’s lives as they progress through school. She was awarded the 2009 Dina Feitelson Research Award from the International Reading Association.

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