Jackie Edmondson

Chancellor & Chief Academic Office at Penn State Greater Allegheny

Jackie is also professor of education, and she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in literacy and policy. Her research focuses on policy, texts, and teacher education, and it has been published in a number of academic journals. Her books include: America Reads: A Critical Policy Analysis (2000), Prairie Town: Redefining Rural Life in an Age of Globalization (2003), Understanding and Applying Critical Policy Study: Reading Educators Advocating for Change (2004), Reading Education Policy (2005 co-edited with Patrick Shannon), as well as biographies for adolescent readers about Venus and Serena Williams (2005, Greenwood Press), Condoleezza Rice (2006, Greenwood Press), Jesse Owens (2007, Greenwood Press), Jerry Garcia (2009, Greenwood Press), and John Lennon (2010). She is editor of Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars and Stories That Shaped Our Culture (2013, ABC-CLIO), a five-volume encyclopedia for high school students and general readers that won the 2014 Outstanding Resource Award from RUSA/ALA.