Samuel blumenfeld biography

Samuel Blumenfeld (born 1926 in New York – 2015 in Waltham) was a.
Samuel Blumenfeld was a phonics advocate and conservative writer.
He is a native New Yorker who was educated in the public schools of New York city and City College of New York.

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Samuel Blumenfeld (born 1926 in New York, died 2015 in Waltham) was a phonics advocate and conservative writer. He frequently lectured in favor of systematic phonics instruction in the teaching of reading and wrote over a dozen books on education.^[1]

Biography[]

Growing up in the South Bronx, Blumenfeld saw combat in Italy during World War II and later graduated from the City College of New York.^[1] He published multiple books on education and spent much of his career investigating the decline in American literacy, the rise in learning disabilities in American children, sex and drug education, and other topics related to education.^[1]^[2] Blumenfeld was an advocate of homeschooling.^[1]

Blumenfeld was also active in the Shakespeare authorship question, theorizing in his 2008 The Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection that Christopher Marlowe may have written many of the works attributed to Shakespeare.^[3]

Published works[]

How To Tutor and Alpha Phonics outline Blumenfeld's preferred methods for teaching children basic

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Samuel L. Blumenfeld is a resident of suburban Boston. He is a native New Yorker who was educated in the public schools of New York city and City College of New York. Before turning full-time writer he was a book and magazine editor. To give himself frontline experience for his books on education he served as a substitute teacher in the Quincy, Massachusetts, public schools. He is chairman of the Massachusetts branch of the Reading Reform Foundation. Blumenfled's articles have appeared in the New York Times, Herald Tribune, Commentary, American Opinion, Ideas, Reason, Inquiry, American Education, Vital Speeches, Education Digest, American Legion Magazine, Conservative Digest and Boston Magazine. He has authored seven books on the subject of education. Several of his books have been given the highest ratings by Mary Pride and Cathy Duffy, two of the leading homeschool curricula reviewers.He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from Bob Jones University in May 1986. Dr. Blumenfeld is a popular lecturer, teacher and advisor at many conferences, workshops and conventions, espec

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Samuel Blumenfeld

Samuel Blumenfeld (born 1926 in New York – 2015 in Waltham) was a phonics advocate and conservative writer. He frequently lectured in favor of systematic phonics instruction in the teaching of reading and wrote over a dozen books on education.^[1] Blumenfeld's critiques against having psychologies in the U.S. public education system is often quoted by Church of Scientology in their publications, and he serves in the Board of Commissioners of Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a Scientology affiliated lobbying organization.^[2]

Biography

Growing up in the South Bronx, Blumenfeld saw combat in Italy during World War II and later graduated from the City College of New York.^[1] He published multiple books on education and spent much of his career investigating the decline in American literacy, the rise in learning disabilities in American children, sex and drug education, and other topics related to education.^[1]^[3] Blumenfeld was an advocate of homeschooling.^[1]He was awarded an honorary Doct