New Geneva is also very please to accept Mr. Samuel Blumenfeld's offer to join its staff as the Director of Primary Education. Mr. Blumenfeld's experience, authorship and expertise has been the backbone of the Christian Home Education movement since the 70's, and he remains active in that cause to this very day.

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Samuel Blumenfeld Bio

Samuel L. Blumenfeld has published ten books on education in America, and he has spent much of his career investigating the following problems: the decline in American literacy, the reasons for the high rate of learning disabilities in American children, the reasons behind the educational establishment in America's support for sex and drug education, the reasons why so many children are labeled ADD, and why the school system refuses to use intensive phonics in reading instruction and memorization in mathematics instruction.Blumenfeld also has written for the John Birch Society.[1] Blumenfeld was born in New York City, educated there, and graduated from The City College of New York in 1950. The book publishing industry is where he spent his next ten years - as editor of the Universal Library at Grosset & Dunlap.His bold commentary on education issues and his veneration as a speaker have brought him to lecture in every state in the United States as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and England. He is internationally recognized as a leader in the intensive, systematic phonics movement.

Recently, he has been very active in the Shakespeare Authorship question, theorizing that Christopher Marlowe may have written many of the works attributed to Shakespeare.

Blumenfeld has written for many online and print sources on a variety of subjects. His writings have appeared in such diverse publications as Reason, Education Digest, Boston Magazine, Vital Speeches of the Day, Practical Homeschooling, Esquire, and many others.

He is a World War II veteran of the Italian campaign.

Published works

His published works include (among others):

• N.E.A.: Trojan Horse in American Education
• Why Schools Went Public
• How to Tutor
• The Whole Language / OBE Fraud
• The Victims of Dick and Jane
• Alpha-Phonics: A Primer For Beginning Readers
• Homeschooling: A Parents Guide to Teaching Children
• New Illiterates and How You Can Keep Your Child from Becoming One
• Is Public Education Necessary?
• Property in a Humane Economy
• The Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection: A New Study of the Authorship Question

How To Tutor and Alpha Phonics focus on proper methods for teaching children basic school subjects. Blumenfeld's other works primarily focus on the failures of the public education establishment in America.

His 2008 The Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection is profiled on http://www.marlowe-shakespeare.blogspot.com, where he is also a regular contributor.

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