Ida Byrd-Hill
Ida Byrd-Hill is the President of Uplift, Inc, a 501(c)3 non profit Idea Incubator reconstructing cities One Idea at a Time. She is the author of Breakin' Out of Your Financial Funk and creator of the cyber class STRONG READER. She can be reached at http://www.upliftinc.org.
Articles by this Author
Special Education No More!!!!
- By Ida Byrd-Hill
- Published 12/1/2008
- Health & Beauty
- Unrated
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
Video Games - The Savior of Public Education
- By Ida Byrd-Hill
- Published 11/19/2008
- Unrated
Four of every ten young-adult dropouts receive some government assistance Dropouts are eight times more likely to be in jail, and half of all prison inmates are dropouts