Dr. Marion's Learning Lab

Dr. Marion Blank is a Cambridge-educated, internationally recognized literacy authority who has received many awards for her work including a distinguished Career Development Award from the National Institute of Health and the Upton Sinclair Award. Dr. Blank has been an advisor and consultant to organizations and governments in the US, Canada, Great Britain, and the Netherlands along with serving as a consultant on the creation of Sesame Street™. Her language tests have been translated into over a dozen languages and are used throughout the world. Dr. Blank created and was the Director of Columbia University’s Light on Literacy program.

Career Highlights

• Director of the Light on Literacy program at Columbia University
• Ph.D. awarded by the University of Cambridge (UK)
• Recipient of U.S. Public Health Service Career Development Award
• Consultant on the creation of Sesame Street™
• Upton Sinclair Award Winner
• Certificate of Achievement, Johns Hopkins University Research Award
• Served on boards for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
• Creator of a broad set of unique language programs, like Directing Discourse and Spectacular Bond, that have been used internationally to train thousands of educators  over the past several decades
• Author of The Reading Remedy
• Also authored The Language of Learning (ISBN 0808910582), Steps to Stories (ISBN 1484060172), Memory Master (ISBN 150332639X), Spectacular Bond (ISBN 0989546209), Directing Discourse (ISBN 0884502171) and dozens of other books and articles focused on reading and learning

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