Background
McGee was born on August 1, 1949 in Columbus, Ohio.
McGee was born on August 1, 1949 in Columbus, Ohio.
Later, McGee received her Master of Surgery degree from Old Dominion University and her Education
She received her Bachelor of Surgery degree from Miami University in 1971 graduating summa cum laude. Doctorate. degree from Virginia Technical in 1980. She has taught at Louisiana State University, Boston College, the University of Alabama, and Ohio State University.
She teaches graduate courses in foundations of language and literacy development, Reading Recovery theory and practice, and emergent literacy research.
Currently McGee is teaching the following courses at Ohio State University: Understanding the Reading Process, Reading Recovery, Understanding Reading Difficulties, and Research in Emergent Literacy. In addition to her work at Ohio State University, McGee frequently travels around the United States. to provide professional development and personally work with teachers in their classrooms.
McGee was the President of the National Reading Conference in 2004. She also received the Albert J. Kingston Award for Distinguished Service at the National Reading Conference in 2000. While teaching at the University of Alabama, McGee received the Research Impact Award at the College of Education in 2006. McGee obtained two grants from the United States. Department of Education. She was the principal investigator of the Early Reading First Grant, a two million-dollar grant that aids under-privileged children in high poverty areas. In 1994 McGee also received the Elva Knight Research Grant, an International Reading Association, for First Grader’s Response to Literature.
