Yaacov Petscher wins 2 awards

Yaacov Petscher, Associate Director of the Florida Center for Reading Research, has won the Educational Researcher of the Year Award (Florida Educational Research Association) and the Dina Feitelson Research Award (International Literacy Association).

According to the International Literacy Association's website, the Dina Feitelson Research Award was established to honor the memory of Dina Feitelson for a current literature published worldwide focusing on reading and related disciplines to recognize an outstanding empirical study, published in English in a refereed journal.