Richard Venezky
Biography
- Richard Venezky is Unidel Professor of Educational Studies and
professor of Computer and Information Sciences and of Linguistics at the
University of Delaware. He is also the National Research Director for the
U.S. Secretary of Education's Initiative on Reading and Writing, past president
of the Reading Hall of Fame (1996-97), and director of computing for the
Dictionary of Old English at the University of Toronto. From 1990 until
1995 he was co-director for Research and Development for the National Center
on Adult Literacy. Prior to coming to the University of Delaware he was
chair of computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- During the 1994-95 academic year, he was the Benton Visiting Scholar in Education at the University of Chicago, and during 1997-98 he is a scholar in residence at the U. S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C. He holds a B.E.E. degree and an M.A. degree in linguistics from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford University. Professor Venezky has authored books and journal articles on the design of computer-assisted instruction, English orthography, reading instruction, and the psychology of reading. In addition he has authored and co-authored a number of instructional programs for pre-reading, reading, spelling, and language arts, as well as multimedia materials for reading. His research interests include intelligent instructional systems, reading processes, and literacy.
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