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Paul H. Ford Jr. (July 1, 1934-),born in Brockton, Massachusetts is an American educator/researcher. During the early 1960's he pioneered development, testing and dissemination of individualized instruction systems. (Lay Readers in the High School Composition Program: Some Statistics, THE ENGLISH JOURNAL. 1961 and A Different Day for the English Teacher, THE ENGLISH JOURNAL. 1961. His CALVIN H. WILEY'S VIEW OF THE NEGRO was published by the North Carolina Historical Society in 1964. In 1965 The National Education Association published his important THE ASSIGNMENT AND MISASSIGNMENT OF AMERICAN TEACHERS. By 1967 he led efforts to build and test multi-media self-instructional systems supported by computer assisted instruction, for students in remote rural high schools including some in Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Remote High Schools: Myth Reality, Potential. BULLETIN OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS.1967. During the 1970's he was responsible for supervising a highly individualized self-instructional program in an economically depressed area; this project resulted in two National Pacesetter Awards from the U.S. Office of Education. Ford is an honorary citizen of Tucson and Las Vegas as a result of his work with the Danforth Foundation.

Dr. Ford was instrumental in creating a plan ( working as principal/scientist with Battelle Northwest Laboratories) by which kindergarten support was adopted by the Washington State Legislature. His application of non-parametric research designs for assessing student progress has been adopted from Guam to Alaska and Florida. He has served an an organization development consultant to the Director of Preventative Health for the People's Republic of China and to Asia University, Japan.

Ford's two avocational books are ANGLER'S HOPE, THE RIVER AND THE CAPE (1995) and BELOVED WATERS ( 2001) and (2003).

Ford graduated from Dartmouth College cum laude in government and from Harvard University Ed,M, Ed.D. He served as Professor of Educational Curriculum and Instruction at Washington State University and as Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost at Western Washington University which granted him Emeritus status. In 2003 Dr. Ford and his wife Mary Ann established the endowed Paul and Mary Ann Fly Fishing Collection at WWU.