The Florida Center for Reading Research

The Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) is a multidisciplinary research center at Florida State University that was established in 2002 by the Governor’s office and Legislature. Currently, FCRR is home to nine tenured and tenure-track faculty members holding joint appointments with the College of Arts & Sciences or College of Education. The center supports 17 federal research contracts & grants with a staff of over 550 including post-doctoral fellows, senior research associates, graduate research assistants, and undergraduate students. The center maintains over 28,000 sq. ft. of research laboratory and office space on the Tallahassee campus of The Florida State University. FCRR research projects also operate in more than 10,000 sq. ft. of research space at the FSU-Panama City Campus and smaller labs in Miami, Orlando, and Pensacola, FL. FCRR resources expand well beyond Florida through multiple video-conference and webinar enabled conference facilities. The FSU libraries e-journals compliment an extensive reading research library of books, journals, and standardized assessments and curricula materials.

FCRR is charged through Florida statute to collaborate with the Florida Department of Education and Florida public schools on reading instruction, intervention, and assessment. FCRR also continues to develop, host, and maintain the Progress Monitoring and Reporting Network (PMRN), an unparalleled database of K-12 student demographic and reading assessment data. Each year, more than 1.7 million K-12 Florida students participate in the Florida Assessments for Instruction of Reading (FAIR) developed at FCRR.