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Melanie Kuhn is the Jean Adamson Stanley Faculty Chair at the Purdue University College of Education, focusing on Literacy and Language Education, as well as Curriculum Instruction. She obtained her Ph.D. in Reading Education from the University of Georgia in 2000, and holds an M.Phil. in Psychological Investigation of Intellectual Development from Cambridge University, completed in 1993. She also earned an Ed.M. in Reading Language from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1988, and a B.A. in History, Magna Cum Laude, from Boston College in 1984. Her research emphasizes the critical role of reading in learner success, exploring instructional approaches that aim to close the achievement gap between struggling readers and their successful peers. Currently, her work investigates the relationship between reading fluency, vocabulary, conceptual knowledge, and comprehension development, alongside methods that ensure all students can access challenging texts.
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