Profile: Meet Professor Micki Caskey
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." a quote by John Dewey summarizes Dr. Micki Caskey's view of education.
Meet Professor Micki Caskey
Micki M. Caskey, a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, draws on more than 20 years of teaching inner-city adolescents in middle and high schools. Her areas of specialization include middle grades education, content area literacy, action research, learning strategies and content enhancements, and teacher education.

She is chair of the American Educational Research Association's Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group, chair of the National Middle School Association's (NMSA) Research Advisory Board, editor of Research in Middle Level Education Online, higher education representative to the Oregon Middle Level Association, and board member of the Portland Reading Council.

Her publications include: The Young Adolescent and the Middle School, Reading and Learning Strategies: Middle Grades through High School, (3rd ed.) and Making a Difference: Action Research in Middle Level Education (5th volume of The Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education series), book chapters, curriculum, and numerous journal articles.

Micki Caskey, PhD
PO Box 751
615 SW Harrison
Room 602B
Portland, OR 97207-0751
Phone: 503-725-4749
Fax: 503-725-8475
Email: caskeym@pdx.edu