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Virginia Birt Baker

Was active in the Reading Reform Foundation (Phoenix, AZ), the only organization that promoted intensive phonics-only reading programs in the English language, and presented at its seminars in Tampa, Cincinnati, and Phoenix. A former home schooling mom and a founding executive board member of the Texas Home School Coalition and did the research for its pamphlet, "Home Education: Is It Working?".

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PUBLIC SCHOOLS, HOME SCHOOLS, AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS

A History Lesson, and a Warning
by Virginia Birt Baker Columnist EdNews.org
Many years ago someone observed that many parents raise their children but do not educate them. People sup together, play together, travel together, but they do not think together. Hardly any homes have any intellectual life whatsoever. The cause of this decay of the family's traditional role as the transmitter of tradition is the same as that of the decay of the humanities: nobody believes that the old books do, or even could, contain the truth.

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