Kids Need to Read is thrilled to announce the newest addition to its Board of Directors, Dr. James Blasingame. James is an associate professor of English at Arizona State University, where he teaches methods courses in the teaching of writing and young adult literature, and supervises student teachers. He is president of the Arizona English Teachers’ Association, president-elect of the National Council of Teachers of English’s Assembly on Literature for Adolescents and served on the committee that wrote the Arizona Department of Education Writing Standards. He is editor of The ALAN Review, the publication on young adult literature of the National Council of Teachers of English, and creates the Books for Adolescents pages of the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, the teen literacy publication of the International Reading Association. James received the Arizona State University 2008 Professor of the Year Award, the 2007 Arizona State University Professor of the Year Special Recognition Award and was named the 2007 Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teacher of the Humanities.
Kids Need to Read is honored to have such a distinguished member of the education community serve on its board.
