Maryanne Wolf

Director, Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Education,

University of California, Los Angeles

Maryanne Wolf is the director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies; she is also Distinguished Visiting Professor of Education at UCLA. She was previously the John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service and director of the Center for Reading and Language Research in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University. Wolf began her work in cognitive neuroscience and developmental psycholinguistics on the reading brain, literacy development, and dyslexia at Harvard University in the Department of Human Development and Psychology at the Graduate School of Education. She received her EdD in human development and psychology at Harvard University.

updated 1998

Contributing topics

Access, quality & alignment in early childhood education

Publications by Maryanne Wolf

February 1998

Early Child Care Selection

Variation by Geographic Location, Maternal Characteristics, and Family Structure

More than half of all U.S. infants and toddlers spend at least 20 hours per week in the care of a nonparent adult. This article uses survival analysis to identify which families are most likely to place their child in care, and the ages when these…