Ruth Wright

Ruth Wright earned a bachelors degree in child development and elementary education at Utah State University and studied at the Merrill Palmer Institute in Detroit, while obtaining a masters degree from the University of Michigan. She went on to study and teach in Germany at the University of Tübingen and at the American school in Böblingen.

Eventually, she ended up in Boise, Idaho with her husband, poet Charles David Wright, where she taught various grades in a teaching career spanning over forty years. Along the way, she has been a classroom teacher in Oregon, Alaska, and Washington; and an instructor in child development at Merrill Palmer and Iowa State University.

While in North Carolina, she developed a private preschool; taught in the first Head Start teacher training program in the southeastern United States; and was the education director for the initial Frank Porter Graham Child Development Research Center in Chapel Hill. She has worked with Head Start in Idaho and later became the director of the first publicly funded charter school in Boise.

Retiring from teaching in 1993, Ruth Wright became an award winning photographer. Mrs. Grimes Does Barbie and Other Kindergarten Adventures is her first book.

 

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