Patrick Shannon

A former preschool and primary grade teacher, Patrick Shannon is a professor of education at Penn State University. He has worked in public schools and universities across the United States and Canada, and is currently working with Kathleen Collins and Kathleen Shannon to develop and study a sociocultural, multimodal alternative to RTI (Response to Intervention) for children and youth positioned as struggling to learn to read and write at school. The project is labeled Reading Camp (not Reading Clinic) and serves as part of the curriculum for reading specialist/special education certification candidates. He is in the process of rewriting his Reading Poverty (1998). Among his 16 books are The Struggle to Continue (1992), text, lies, & videotape (1995), and Reading Against Democracy (2007). He was elected to the Reading Hall of Fame in 2002.