Margaret Carruthers

Director, Business Solutions

Margaret has managed a number of projects, including a series of middle school texts for struggling readers, high school chemistry ancillaries, and several state-specific assessment projects. She has also edited student editions and teacher editions for a basal health program for grades 3–6, written and edited science assessment items for grades 3–11, written a grade 4 prototype for a general science program, and edited the science portions of a cross-curricular reading project.

Margaret is a geologist who received her B.S. from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and her M.S. in Geology from the University of Massachusetts. Her work has taken her to many parts of North America and to the Pacific and South Atlantic oceans.

For more than 10 years Margaret was a teacher and a consultant for a wide range of science-related materials. Her awards include runner-up for The Daily Telegraph/BASF Young Science Writer Awards 2000 for “Flying Blind: Volcanic Hazards at 30,000 Feet.” and overall winner of the Geologists’ Association Earth Alert Rockwriters’ Essay Competition 2000 for “Exploring the Longest Volcano on Earth.” She is also the author of a number of books on earth and planetary sciences, including The Moon (Franklin Watts, 2003), Tsunamis (Franklin Watts, 2005), and Beach Stones (Abrams, 2006).