Marie Clay

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Dame Dr. Marie Mildred Clay, DBE, Fellow Royal Society of New Zealand is a distinguished researcher in educational literacy in the world. She has been called "the Michael Jordan of reading" for changing the face of primary school literacy instruction.

Clay received her Ph.D. from the University of Auckland in 1966, where she had been on the faculty since 1960. She developed the Reading Recovery intervention program, which was adopted by all New Zealand schools in 1983.

Her teachers' guidebook, Reading Recovery: Guidelines for Teachers in Training, has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide.

[edit] Ohio State University

Faculty at Ohio State first worked with Clay in the early 1980s and she served as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar here in 1984-85. The Ohio State University Board of Trustees approved the Marie Clay Endowed Chair in Reading Recovery and Early Literacy on February 4, 2005.