Diane August

Diane August is currently an Independent Consultant as well as a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Applied Linguistics located in the Washington DC. At the Center for Applied Linguistics, she is directing a large federally funded study investigating the development of literacy in English-language learners. She is also the Staff Director for the National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth. As an educational consultant, Dr. August has worked in the areas of literacy, program improvement, evaluation and testing, and federal and state education policy. She has been a Senior Program Officer at the National Academy of Sciences and study director for the Committee on Developing a Research Agenda on the Education of Limited English Proficient and Bilingual Students. Dr. August has worked in a number of other positions. For ten years she was a public school teacher and school administrator in California. Subsequently, she served as Legislative Assistant in the area of education for a U.S. Congressman from California, worked as a Grants Officer for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and was Director of Education for the Children's Defense Fund. In 1981, she received her PhD in education from Stanford University, and in 1982 completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychology also at Stanford.