Diane August

Diane is a managing director at the American Institutes for Research. Her area of expertise is the development of literacy in second-language learners. Formerly at the Center for Applied Linguistics, she was the Principal Investigator for a large federally-funded study investigating the development of literacy in English-language learners and Co-Principal Investigator at the National Research and Development Center on English language Learners. She was Staff Director for the National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth. At the American Institutes for Research she is managing the Education, Human Development, and Workforce Division’s portfolio related to English Learners. She has been a Senior Program Officer at the National Academy of Sciences where she was study director for the Committee on Developing a Research Agenda on the Education of Limited English Proficient and Bilingual Students. Dr. August has worked as a teacher, school administrator, legislative assistant, Grants Officer for the Carnegie Corporation, and Director of Education for the Children's Defense Fund. In 1981, she received her Ph.D. in education from Stanford University, and in 1982 completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychology also at Stanford. She has published widely in journals and books.