Career
After her 12 years of experience as a classroom teacher in Texas and New York, Alverman became an Assistant Principal in 1975 at Elmira City Schools in New York. Her first higher education appointment came in 1980 at University of Northern Iowa. In 1982, she joined the faculty of the College of Education at the University of Georgia, where she advanced through the ranks to Full Professor in 1990 and Distinguished Research Professor in 2001. She has been a Visiting Scholar at both the Institute for Research on Teaching at Michigan State University(1982) and Louisiana State University (1987), and a Lansdowne Lecturer at the University of Victoria, Canada (2001). She has done numerous consultations, some of which include the following: Carnegie Corporation of New York; RAND Corporation; American Institutes for Research; RMC Research Corporation; Education Development Center/ Center for Children and Technology; Boys and Girls Club of America; Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation/Jobs for the Future; Spencer Foundation; WNET Channel Thirteen, New York City; WGBH Boston Public TV; and WETA, the flagship PBS station in Washington, DC. Alvermann has authored over 100 articles, 15 books, and 70 chapters related to adolescent literacy. She has been principal or co-principal investigator of 22 grants, including the National Reading Research Center that she co-directed from 1992-1997 at the University of Georgia. Alvermann has been affiliated with the Institute for Behavioral Research at the University of Georgia since 1991, most recently as a Fellow in the Community, Ethnicity and Identity in Context Group.
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