Dr. Rasinski’s bio
Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D.
Professor of Reading Education
Reading and Writing Center
Kent State University
401 White Hall
Kent, OH 44242
trasinsk@kent.edu ; 330-672-0649
website: www.timrasinski.com
Twitter: @timrasinski1
Timothy Rasinski is a professor of literacy education at Kent State University and director of its award-winning reading clinic. He also holds the Rebecca Tolle and Burton W.Gorman Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership. Tim has written over 250 articles and
has authored, co-authored or edited over 50 books or curriculum programs on reading education. He is author of the best-selling books on reading fluency The Fluent Reader and The Megabook of Fluency. Tim’s scholarly interests include reading fluency and word study, reading in the elementary and middle grades, and readers who struggle. His
research on reading has been cited by the National Reading Panel and has been published inn journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Reading
Psychology, and the Journal of Educational Research. Tim is the first author of the fluency chapter for the Handbook of Reading Research, Volume IV.
Tim served a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association and was co-editor of The Reading Teacher, the world's most widely read journal of literacy education. He has also served as co-editor of the Journal of Literacy
Research. Rasinski is past-president of the College Reading Association and he has won
the A. B. Herr and Laureate Awards from the College Reading Association for his
scholarly contributions to literacy education. In 2010 Tim was elected to the International
Reading Hall of Fame and he is also the 2020 recipient of the William S. Gray Citation of
Merit from the International Literacy Association. In a 2021 study done at Stanford
University Tim was identified as being among the top 2% of scientists in the world.
Prior to coming to Kent State Tim taught literacy education at the University of Georgia.
He taught for several years as an elementary and middle school classroom and reading intervention teacher in Omaha, Nebraska. Tim is a veteran of the United States armed forces.
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