Expert profile
Name Scott D Welch Job title President
Organization	BRIGHT SKY LEARNING
Expertise	Scott can knowledgeably discuss the illiteracy problem that has plagued America for years, citing dates where phonics instruction began to be displaced in education by the whole word methodology (and the many other names it hides behind) and the people introducing those changes. An avid writer and reader, as well as a seasoned business executive, Scott has seen first-hand high school graduates applying for jobs that they could not even spell and knows educators who admitted to passing children into upper grades because they did not want to "bruise the child's ego," as was a popular ideology that entered school systems in the 1980's.
Books and articles published	Under the pen name of Scott Frank, Scott published the crime thriller "Darkness Descends." In addition, under his own name, working with Lene Dessing and Christian Warburg from Denmark, he wrote the lyrics for the song "Our Love," currently being shopped in the US.
Background	Scott attended Cal State U Stanislaus and Northridge where he double-majored in Bus Admin and Radio/TV/Film. In Calif, he held a Preliminary Vocational Teaching Credential (Mgmt & Mktg) and taught computer and Internet-related adult school classes.
Country / Region	United States

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