Dr. Donald Rasmussen

Dr. Donald Rasmussen became fascinated with the work of renowned linguist Leonard Bloomfield as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois. After many years as a college professor, he became principal of the Miquon School, a small teacher-parent cooperative near Philadelphia. There, during the 1960s, Dr. Rasmussen and co-author Lynn Goldberg put Bloomfield’s theories into practice by developing the BASIC READING SERIES (BRS), a whole-word phonics program originally published by Science Research Associates (SRA), later by McGraw-Hill. The BASIC READING SERIES is now in its 6th edition.