Ida Byrd-Hill

Ida Byrd-Hill, founder of STRONG READER and President of Uplift, Inc., has been called an educational innovator having orchestrated double digit increases in test scores at previously low performing schools. Http://www.upliftinc.org http://www.cyberschoolinc.com 877-4CYBER0

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Special Education No More!!!!

By Ida Byrd-Hill
Published 12/1/2008
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Since the 1940s k-12 schools taught the whole language concept of reading- memorizing words, known as sight-reading When we were a manufacturing society, sight-reading and memorization was the easy quick way to prepare people for the factory as basic reading skills were necessary