Douglas Carnine is Professor of Education in the University of Oregon and Director of the National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators.

Carnine was a National Science Foundation Fellow in Psychology as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois, where he graduated with distinction and as Phi Beta Kappa in 1969. He completed his M.A. in Special Education at the University of Oregon in 1971 and his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at the University of Utah in 1974.

In 1991 with co-author Engelmann wrote Theory of Instruction: Principles and Applications. In this book Carnine and Engelmann lay out a plan for the development of effective Instruction. This book laid the ground work for Engelmann’s theory of direct instruction. The authors argue that a theory of instruction should be based on scientific analysis.

In 1998 he published Effective Teaching Strategies That Accommodate Diverse Learners, with Edward J. Kameenui. “This book examines the teaching, instruction, and curricula required to meet the needs of diverse students, who by virtue of their experiential, cultural, socioeconomic, linguistic, and physiological backgrounds, challenge traditional curriculum and instructional programs The text provides a critical examination of the pedagogical and curricular requirements in schools over the last five years ” (Online review).

A man with many varied research interests, Carnine has directed or co-directed over 20 federally-funded grants, totaling over $15,000,000. His current grants include BRIDGE with technology and the National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators or NCITE. Carnine has over 100 scholarly publications: over 60 research articles in refereed journals, 40 essays, over 20 chapters in books, and seven books (two on university-level computer science, Teaching Higher Order Thinking, Theory of Instruction, Instructional Strategies for Diverse Learners, Direct Instruction Reading, and Direct Instruction Math.) In addition, Carnine has served as consulting editor or editorial board member for eight journals, and has authored a developmental mathematics series, a remedial mathematics series, a U.S. history text, a computer networking system, and numerous CAI, ICAI and videodisk programs.