Richard Allington

Biography

• 1969–1973, Ph.D., Michigan State University, Elementary and Special Education
• 1968–1969, M.A., Western Michigan University, Reading Education
• 1965–1968, B.A., Western Michigan University, Social Science/Elementary Education

  Career

• 2000–2004, Fien Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Florida
• 1995–1999, Chair, Department of Reading & Senior Research Scientist National Research Center for English Learning and Achievement University at Albany-SUNY
• 1989–1999, Professor, Teaching and Research, University at Albany-SUNY
• 1987–1989, Director, Center for Teaching Effectiveness, State University of New York at Albany,
• 1982–1988, Chair, Department of Reading, State University of New York at Albany
• 1981, Visiting Professor/Teaching, Eastern Montana College
• 1978–1981, Associate Professor/Teaching and Research, State University of New York at Albany
• 1976, Visiting Professor/Teaching, University of Minnesota
• 1973–1978, Assistant Professor/Teaching and Research, State University of New York at Albany
• 1971–1973, Graduate Assistant and Lecturer, Michigan State
• 1969–1971, Title I Director/reading teacher, Belding Area Schools, MI
• 1968–1969, Classroom Teacher, Grade 4/5, Kent City Schools, MI

  Publications

• Allington, Richard L. & Patricia Cunningham, Schools that Work: Where All Children Learn to Read, Pearson, 2006.
• Allington, Richard, L. Response to Intervention: Research-Based Designs, Pearson, 2008
• McGill-Franzen, Anne M. & Allington, Richard L. Handbook of Reading Disabilities Research, Routledge, 2010
• Allington, Richard, L. What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs, Pearson, 2012
• Allington, Richard L. & McGill-Franzen, Anne M. Summer Reading: Closing the Rich/Poor Reading Achievement Gap, Teachers College Press, 2013
• Pressley, Michael & Richard L. Allington, "Reading Instruction that Works: The Case for Balanced Teaching", Guilford Press, 2014.
• Cunningham, Patricia & Allington, Richard L., Classrooms that Work: Where All Children Read and Write, Pearson, 2015.