Jean Osborn

Jean Osborn, MEd, is an educational consultant whose prior administrative, research, and teaching experience includes nearly 20 years on the staff of the Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois, during which she served as Associate Director for twelve years. The coeditor of four books on reading research, she is the author of more than 30 articles and book chapters, as well as a set of resource materials on textbook adoptions. Fran Lehr, MA, an education writer who has also...See more

Jean Osborn, MEd, is an educational consultant whose prior administrative, research, and teaching experience includes nearly 20 years on the staff of the Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois, during which she served as Associate Director for twelve years. The coeditor of four books on reading research, she is the author of more than 30 articles and book chapters, as well as a set of resource materials on textbook adoptions. Fran Lehr, MA, an education writer who has also worked as a teacher and editor, served on the staff of the Center for the Study of Reading for seven years. She is coauthor (with Stephen Stahl and Jean Osborn) of a summary of Marilyn J. Adams' "Beginning to Read" and coeditor (with Jean Osborn) of "Reading, Language, and Literacy," See less