Established in 1963 as a reading clinic and later receiving designation as a UB center, CLaRI has worked closely with the community, children, schools, educators and parents to serve thousands of children and teachers in Western New York and to carry out internationally recognized research. CLaRI research is guided by a vision aligned with the Graduate School of Education’s strategic strengths.
We are passionately committed to literacy education for all children from diverse socioeconomic, linguistic, cultural, religious, racial and ethnic backgrounds. CLaRI projects align with schools, teachers, and communities. We draw on community and school values to investigate literacy-related practices, achievement, learning, and teaching.
While educational policy mandates and curricular trends shift over time, CLaRI researchers continue to focus on evidence-based practices for teaching and learning. We investigate literacy-related teaching and learning grounded in decades of research experience and practice.
Evolving school and societal contexts require investigations of multiple literacies. CLaRI researchers investigate traditional print-based and digital reading and writing processes for teaching and learning as well as literacy in emerging digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) and their role in schools and society.
In an increasingly complex educational landscape, problems and challenges related to literacy require research teams with diverse methodological experience and expertise. Our researchers investigate literacy-related teaching and learning from small scale micro events to district-wide interventions using multiple approaches to research methods and analysis.
The University at Buffalo, a Tier 1 institution, is home to world-renowned researchers and produces research in numerous areas in the field of education. Publications and additional information on the research conducted at UB can be found at the Graduate School of Education.