Harvard University

Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education

Dr. Catherine Snow is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She studies determinants of literacy development and academic achievement among students in urban schools, with special attention to struggling readers and to English language learners. She is leading the Boston field site of the Strategic Education Research Partnership, a practice-research partnership which is focused on improving literacy in middle schools.

Dr. Snow’s most recent book, coauthored with Michelle Porche, Patton Tabors, and Stephanie Ross Harris, is called Is Literacy Enough? Pathways to Academic Success for Adolescents. It identifies the determinants of literacy success for children from low-income families, but also defines the additional motivational resources and the school and family supports these students need as they enter adolescence, if they are to be academically successful.

Dr. Snow obtained her MA and PhD from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.