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...Jeanne S. Chall...
...influential researcher and emerita professor at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) who for decades was at the forefront of the debate over how people learn to read, Jeanne S. Chall died Nov. 27 of heart failure at her Cambridge home...
...Chall, who retired in 1991, was one of the first psychologists to talk of reading as a learning process with developmental stages. She started teaching...
...Colleagues said one of Chall's chief contributions to her field was to urge reading teachers to give elementary school students the most challenging literature possible...
...Until about a year ago, Chall continued to visit campus regularly to research, teach and write. About two weeks before her death, she finished editing her final work, a retrospective on trends in reading education...