Devin M. Kearns Ph.D.

Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Early Literacy at North Carolina State University at Raleigh

Devin M. Kearns, Ph.D. is a Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Early Literacy at North Carolina State University at Raleigh. Devin studies early reading including the cognitive and neurobiological basis of reading, science-based methods for improving reading skills, and multi-tiered support systems to better meet the needs of all students. He has published more than 75 papers in research journals like the Journal of Educational Psychology and teacher journals like The Reading Teacher and received funding from local and national agencies to support his research. Devin frequently visits schools nationwide to help them build better systems to maximize students' reading success.