NANCY MADDEN, PhD is a professor at the Center for Research and Reform in Education at the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University. She is also CEO of the Success for All Foundation which develops, researches, and disseminates educational programs to increase achievement, particularly for disadvantaged students.
Madden graduated from Reed College in 1973, and received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from American University in 1980. Since 1980, she has worked at the Center for Research and Reform in Education (CRRE) and earlier centers at Johns Hopkins University, where she has directed the development of the reading, writing, tutoring, language arts, and mathematics elements of Success for All, a comprehensive school reform program.
An expert in literacy and instruction, Madden is the author or co-author of many articles and books on cooperative learning, tutoring, prevention of need for special education, and education of disadvantaged students, including Effective Programs for Students at Risk (Allyn & Bacon, 1989) and Two Million Children: Success for All (Corwin, 2009). Current research interests include computer-assisted tutoring strategies, effects of vision services on achievement, and comprehensive school reform.
Dr. Madden’s late husband and research partner ROBERT E. SLAVIN, PhD, for whom this professorship is named, was a noted education researcher, the first-ever Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education, and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Research and Reform in Education.
Dr. Slavin was a member of the National Academy of Education since 2009. He received the E. L. Thorndike Award for Career Achievement from the American Psychological Association in 2017, and the Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award from the American Educational Research Association in 2019.