About
Alison L. Bailey is a developmental psycholinguist. Her expertise includes developing language learning progressions with multilingual and English as a new language learner, and supporting teachers’ academic language pedagogy and assessment practices. She is currently PI of the two U.S. Department of Education funded ExcEL Peer Network projects focused on teacher professional learning with English learners, and Co-PI of NSF and W.T. Grant Foundation Grants. She is a member of the NAEP Reading Standing Committee, Co-Chair of the NCME Classroom Assessment Task Force, and several state and other assessment technical advisory committees.