A nationally known award-winning researcher, Dr. Marie Carbo originated the concept of "Reading Styles." She is the creator of the Reading Style Inventory® and the developer of the Carbo Recorded-Book® Method.

Dr. Carbo is founder and executive director of the National Reading Styles Institute and has created a nationwide network of Model Reading Styles Schools that exemplify the power of her work to change children’s lives. Carbo Reading was one of a handful of programs selected as a research-based program by the Northwest Regional Laboratory funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Education Commission of the States, the NEA, and the National Staff Development Council.

A former classroom teacher and learning disabilities specialist, Marie Carbo has had over 100 articles published in major educational journals, including: The Reading Teacher, Teaching Exceptional Children, Theory Into Practice, American School Board Journal, Remedial and Special Education, Phi Delta Kappan, Educational Leadership, Education Digest, The School Administrator, Instructor, Learning, Creative Classroom, and Teaching K/8.  Dr. Carbo has written four ground-breaking books: Teaching Students to Read Through Their Individual Learning Styles (with the Dunns), How to Record Books for Maximum Reading Gains, What Every Principal Should Know About Teaching Reading, and Becoming a Great Teacher of Reading.

In an ASCD Infobrief, Dr. Carbo’s research caused her to be listed as one of the 21 most important people or events of the last 150 years in reading instruction. She received ASCD’s First National Dissertation Award and has served on ASCD’s Improving Student Achievement and Urban Education Advisory Boards.

Her work continues to be grounded in what has always made it uniquely important: the highest quality of research, as well as a devoted attention to the needs and strengths of children of all ages. As she has always been, Marie Carbo is first and foremost a teacher.