Georgia Earnest García

Georgia Earnest García, PhD, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and a faculty affiliate in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies. Her work focuses on the literacy development, instruction, and assessment of bilingual students, and she has continued to collaborate with bilingual teachers and schools after retirement.

She has held appointments with the Center for the Study of Reading, the RAND Reading Study Group on Skillful Reading, and the National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth. García has authored or coauthored several books, including Accelerating the Literacy Performance of Bilingual Students: Evidence-Based Instruction in Grades K–6, and she was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame in 2019.