Tom Burkard is the Director of The Promethean Trust, a Norwich based charity for dyslexic children and the author of Inside the Secret Garden: the progressive decay of liberal education (University of Buckingham Press, 2007). His main academic interest is the interface between reading theory and classroom practice, and he has written numerous articles for academic journals and the press.
He contributed to the Daily Telegraph Good Schools guide and is the co-author of the Sound Foundation's reading and spelling programmes, which are rapidly gaining recognition as the most cost-effective means of preventing reading failure. He is the author of (with Martin Turner) Reading Fever: Why phonics must come first (CPS, 1996), The End of Illiteracy? The Holy Grail of Clackmannanshire (CPS, 1999), After the Literacy Hour: may be the best plan win (CPS, 2004) and A World First for West Dunbartonshire (CPS, 2006). He is a member of the NAS/UWT, Visiting Fellow at the University of Buckingham, and author of recent CPS publications Troops to Teachers (2008) and Ticking the Right Boxes (2009).
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