Nancy TorranceNancy Torrance has worked as a Senior Research Officer/Research Associate in the Centre for Applied Cognitive Science and the International Centre for Educational Change at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. he has worked extensively with David Olson on a theory of the social development of literacy and the acquisition of literacy in young children and with Lorna Earl on the evaluation of school reform efforts in Manitoba, Ontario, and England. She is co-editor with David Olson of several volumes, including On the Making of Literate Societies: Literacy and Social Development (2001), The Handbook of Education and Human Development: New Models of Learning, Teaching and Schooling (1996), Literacy and Orality (Cambridge University Press, 1991), and, with David Olson and Angela Hildyard, Literacy, Language and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 1985). Read More Read Less