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Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 187: There’s no Mental like Experimental (Wed, Jan. 29, 2025)Episode 187: There’s no Mental like Experimental (Wed, Jan. 29, 2025)In general, the public schools are more dull than ever, and much too devoid of substance. So look for antidote and remedies that make students try new approaches. All those things could be called experimental and that's what this article is about.------------------------------------------------------------------MAX your c*r*e*a*t*i*v*i*t*ylinks to articles about creativityhttps://www.creativity-portal.com/bc/bruce.price/---------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.-----------------------------------------------------------2025-01-2907 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 186: What Do American Kids Learn In Grade One? (Quora question) Wed, Jan 22, 2025Episode 186: What Do American Kids Learn In Grade One? (Quora question) Wed, Jan 22, 2025------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We need more learning starting in kindergarten. And a lot less blah-blah-blah.The essence of the problem, the essence of the solution, all in 5-minute podcast.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ as mentioned in podcast:50 YOUTUBE VIDEOS EXPLAIN WHERE K-12 WENT WRONG ---------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit Education Reform When yo...2025-01-2207 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 185: Bullying! Cheating! Phones in class!... Everybody complains.... Nobody has answers.Episode 185: Bullying! Cheating! Phones in class!... Everybody complains.... Nobody has answers. (Wed., Jan. 15, 2025)The Education Establishment likes to whine. You may think they are expressing a love of improvement. No, they are reinforcing an endless capacity for decline. All the big shots whine, and the public lets them get away with murder, so to speak.---------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit Education Reform When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .2025-01-1507 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 184: Why American Public Schools Can’t Teach Children To Read? The Secret StoryEpisode 184: Why American Public Schools Can’t Teach Children To Read? The Secret Story (Wed, Jan 8, 2025)It was a deal signed in blood, or if not in blood, then in IQ points. Keeping Sight-Words in play was a dirty trick on all the average students who were reduced a notch or three.Frank Smith produced the sophistry required to keep nonsense in play.There is a double penalty because learning to read with phonics actually raises intelligence, according to many researchers.--------------------video: READING IS EASY http...2025-01-0807 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 182: How To Teach More (Wed, Dec 25, 2024)Episode 182: How To Teach More (Wed, Dec 25, 2024For our Education Establishment an exciting new wrinkle would be 20 ways to practice collaboration. Their gift must be called what it is, sleep-inducing.With just a bit of creativity and exploiting the information available to anyone, you can make memorable classroom instruction.Magicians these days are coming up with new ways to entertain an audience. Copy that.(For inspiration, reflect on Shin Limhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTJbWylt4-A )(Acknowledging typo: “...students have all the answers hid...2024-12-2507 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 181: My Italy Speech Revisited (Wed, Dec. 18, 2024)Episode 181: My Italy Speech Revisited (Wed, Dec. 18, 2024)————————------------------------------------------------------------—Italian is said to be the most beautiful language, the most phonetic language. Unfortunately, their Education Establishment was like ours and wanted to replace beauty with sight-words.A reform group invited me over to give a speech. It's a quick summary of what the Reading Wars were about. I say the whole thing is a con. You have to give it to these meddlers, they know how to take down a country.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The contents page from Saving K-12 shows clearly the kind of themes...2024-12-1806 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 180: The Unrelenting Attack On Reading (Wed., Dec. 11, 2024)Episode 180: The Unrelenting Attack On Reading (Wed., Dec. 11, 2024)Starting in kindergarten, children need to read, and they need to learn basic information. Our public schools are designed to stymie BOTH goals.People with children in school have got to pay more attention. The child’s cognitive and intellectual life might be stunted.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit Education Reform When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .2024-12-1107 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 179: Religion versus Science: where’s that go? (Wed., Dec. 4, 2024)Episode 179: Religion versus Science: where’s that go? (Wed., Dec. 4, 2024)Science or Religion, which do you prefer? Another question is, which do you hope is true?My main generalization about the universe is that it's insanely chaotic and mysterious. Science and Religion are two ways of grappling with the chaos and mystery. I recommend both.Historically speaking, Science and Religion trade places when it comes to supremacy. One is all-powerful and then the other takes over. Theories seem to explain everything until they are kicked out on the street.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------MY...2024-12-0405 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 178: Big Pharma, Big Ed, and the Fauci Falsie (Wed., Nov. 27, 2024)Big Pharma and Big Ed have a lot in common. Chicanery. Shenanigans. Blatant corruption. Lots of gullible victims. IMHO.There seem to be people at the top of both industries who lack the gene for shame. Anything they can get away with, they are all in. Time for the public to realize what the game is they're playing. On street corners it's called Three Card Monty. Many variations, one finale. The sucker always loses.Point is, people have learned to distrust Big Pharma. Now they should learn to distrust Big Ed because Big E...2024-11-2706 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 177: The Scariest Shift Is The Growing Indifference To TRUTH. Wed., Nov. 20, 2024Episode 177: The Scariest Shift Is The Growing Indifference To TRUTH. Wed., Nov. 20, 2024 Trump wants to get rid of the Department of Education. Here’s why that is good!Our professors of education are like a vast tumor growing over American culture. They skillfully encourage dumbing down. They must believe they are stronger if the people are weak. Isn't that a shameful thought?So let's return power to the states, and everybody stand by for opportunities to make their schools better. Happy days.----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or r...2024-11-1906 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 176: The Goal Is Not The Goal (Wed., Nov. 13, 2024)Episode 176: The Goal Is Not The Goal (Wed., Nov. 13, 2024)There is a lot of bait and switch throughout K-12, in all subjects. The professors promise you’ll be educated, but instead they make you learn minor stuff, irrelevant stuff. The crucial stuff is forgotten.----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit Education Reform When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word...2024-11-1306 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 175: Millions of Children Suffer from Schoolitis Wed., Nov. 6, 2024Episode 175: Millions of Children Suffer from Schoolitis Here is a dirty little secret. Experts create clouds of confusion around our schools. Parents do not know what's going on in the schools. Or whether anything good is happening.Here are some tips for evaluating the damage----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit Education Reform When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5...2024-11-0607 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 174, What is The Education Enigma? Wed., Oct. 30, 2024Episode 174, The Education Enigma -- Wed., Oct. 30, 2024What is THE EDUCATION ENIGMA?USA spends more money per capita than any other country, but we have the worst schools. And the least educated students. How do you explain this to yourself?This paradox I have named The Education Enigma.Everything is unbelievably shoddy and low-level, except the cost.A cool, calculating observer might even conclude that the people in charge don't know what they're doing. Or they don't want to do what they should be doing....2024-10-3007 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 173: What Are Best Education Topics To Study In Grad School (Wed., Oct. 23, 2024)Memo to students. Are you looking for good topics to research and write about? I have been studying education for many years. I've published a lot of material that you will find useful.So much of the writing within the field of education is shallow, useless, and boring. Typically, professors try to protect methods that should never have been embraced in the first place.-----I have a podcast with 170+ episodes. You can scan the titles quickly. ------And I have 70 graphic vi...2024-10-2305 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 172: Trump threatens to cancel Department of Education. Is this Good? Bad? Or merely a premise for Comedy?Episode 172: Trump threatens to cancel Department of Education. Is this Good? Bad? Or merely a premise for Comedy? (Wed., Oct. 16, 2024)K-12 is not a serious place. It’s an endless array of goofy ideas that should never be used.Basically, that's why Trump wants to eliminate the Department of Education. Personally, I support anything that puts pressure on these dangerous ideologues. The Babylon Bee sees comedy in the pretentious nonsense, and so should we all.----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a...2024-10-1606 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 171: Why Kids Need Multiplication Tables (Wed., October 9, 2024)Episode 171: Why Kids Need Multiplication Tables (Wed., October 9, 2024)What is the one method that every student knows is essential for middle and upper level math. It's a list of shortcuts that we call the multiplication tables. What is 6 by 4? If you don't know, you have to start over again on every question. You have to put little dots on the page, or count on your fingers and toes. Remember how the schools made fun of that. Now it's required.So, should kids memorize times tables? “Stanford University’s Jo Boaler says t...2024-10-0905 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 170: Critical thinking about why do zebras have stripes? (Wed., Oct. 2, 2024)Episode 170: Critical thinking about why do zebras have stripes? (Wed., Oct. 2, 2024)Ed professors play a dangerous game, keeping students ignorant, while pretending that somehow they are being educated.No matter what people are discussing, you need a little basic information on that topic to join the discussion.Did you know that science has not explained why zebras have such contrasty stripes. To discuss this, you need background information. Everything in our public schools is like children going to their first cricket game and nobody tells them what the whole thing...2024-10-0206 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 169: Make sure your child is reading in first grade. (Wed., Sept.25, 2024)Episode 169: Make sure your child is reading in first grade. (Wed., Sept.25, 2024)--K-12 is polluted by bad reading theories. They are killing the country. And if you let them, they will cripple your kid.Maybe you think the education professors are nice guys lost in the woods, that's why they prefer bad theories. No, it's not possible. The arguments and counter-arguments are too well-known. Sight-words rarely work. Phonics has always worked. Give the gift of phonics.----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For...2024-09-2507 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 168: Back To School: Don’t Let Children Be Culturally Illiterate (Wed., Sept. 18, 2024)Episode 168: Back To School: Don’t Let Children Be Culturally Illiterate (Wed., Sept. 18, 2024)All of education depends on starting small and building on that foundation. Our public schools have gutted the early stages where you learn the basics, also known as cultural literacy.Demand that children learn more facts and knowledge from kindergarten onward. ----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of howeveryone can help fix education,visit Education Reform When you need a smar...2024-09-1806 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 167: Back to School: Make Your Students Smarter Faster (Wed., Sept. 11, 2024)Our country is dumber each year because less and less knowledge is taught in the classroom. Don't accept this incompetence, or what I would call it, malevolence.Episode 167 offers ideas for making our schools more efficient, and our students more intelligent.----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit Education Reform When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price2024-09-1107 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 166: Back to school: Modern History Elevated by Iron and SteelEpisode 166: Back to school: Modern History Elevated by Iron and Steel Wed., Sept. 4, 2024SUMMARY: A look at the central ingredient of modern times, namely, the SKYSCRAPER. When did it appear and how and why?————————————————————————————————————————————————————POSTSCRIPT: as urgent as everReading is the most important thing. Our public schools are doing a criminally bad job. Don't accept it.Please see Episode 164. Learn why many experts believe that "Reading Is Easy.”=======================================--------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help reform…Visit Education Reform for a 2-page explanation of what...2024-09-0406 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 165: Back to school: Jump into science, e.g., electricityEpisode 165: Back to school: Jump into science, e.g., electricity (Wed. Aug. 28, 2024)Start small. Teach the littlest amount of information possible. Over time you can give children the fundamental information they need.Kids are sometimes given no preliminary instruction and then expected to grasp sophisticated phenomena. Won’t happen without a struggle. Teach them the most basic stuff before you start.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help my reform work…Visit Education Reform for a 2-p...2024-08-2707 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 164: Back To School: Make Reading #1 Priority (Wed.,August 21, 2024)Episode 164 Back To School: Make Reading #1 Priority (Wed.,August 21, 2024) Super-condensed explanation of why the schools can’t teach reading. This is the single most important flaw in American culture. Don't take it anymore.The podcast is interrupted in the middle so you can watch a video called READING IS EASY. Only three minutes. If you don't get everything then watch the podcast over and over and listen to the video over and over. You will get it all. READING IS EASY (3-MINUTE VIDEO)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JV0tPGn...2024-08-2106 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 163: More Good Ideas For Going Back to SchoolEpisode 163: More Good Ideas For Going Back to SchoolWed., August 14, 2024----------------------------Let's reclaim the classrooms and fill them with joyful learning.To understand why the schools are so bad, you have to understand that the professors in charge do not care about intellectual or academic content. Sorry, that's the tough reality. Let's turn it around by teaching content every chance you get.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------PRECISION: One of the world’s great drum corps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7jsVsUNWsM...2024-08-1307 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 162; Exploring through Typography Wed., Aug., 7, 2024Episode 162; Exploring through Typography Wed., Aug., 7, 2024 BACK TO SCHOOL with better ways to do everything.For example, use graphics and type design to teach reading, aesthetic judgment, marketing, in short, all the things that a savvy adult should know.---------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help reform work…Visit Education Reform for a 2-page explanation of what everyone can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word...2024-08-0707 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 161: Schools more violent!! Experts pretend to be baffled?? Wed., July 31, 2024Episode 61: Schools more violent!! Experts pretend to be baffled?? Wed., July 31, 2024If sight-words and constructivism, didn't work 50 years ago, why do you think they'll work today?The schools are full of goofy ideas. Think of them as ticks on a dog, pluck them off and burn them.Episode 161 explains why the Education Establishment is so unhelpful---------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help my reform work…Visit Education Reform for a 2-page explanation of what...2024-07-3106 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 160: How Ideological Hacks Ruin The Schools (Wed., July 24, 2024)Episode 160: How Ideological Hacks Ruin The Schools (Wed., July 24, 2024)Don't let the blizzard of lies confuse you. It's the same pattern over and over. They try to take you off your game. So they can order you around and make you behave the way they want.The answers themselves are just garbage. That's the thing to keep in mind.---------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Breitbart explores Lukacs and Ganghttps://www.breitbart.com/europe/2015/02/04/for-the-first-time-in-history-conservatives-are-at-the-forefront-of-the-cultural-revolution/Graphic shows Lukacs i...2024-07-2307 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 159: What About the Attempted "Assassination" of American Children? ( Wed., July 17, 2024)Episode 159: What About the Attempted Assassination of American Children?Wed., July 17, 2024--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Really hyper ingenious conspiracy. Or just weird dumb luck. I'm talking about the Trump assassination. I'm also talking about the weird ways they teach reading in our schools. Strangely enough, the two things are parallel.The official story about what happened in Butler is not to be believed. The fiendish evil plot against children is also not to be believed or at least accepted as human. So there you have it, two parallel universes.Note 2 excellent videos are...2024-07-1705 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 158: Public Schools gone to hell?? Who you gonna call??Episode 158: Public Schools gone to hell?? Who you gonna call??Wed., July 10, 2024 Basically all education, in all times and places, can be described as incremental mastery. You learn a little today and then a little more tomorrow and then still a little more the next day. Just as if you want to build a high brick wall, you start with one row of bricks.Nowadays, the normal instinctive way to do things is avoided. Somehow the kids are led through the backyard and down the street and a...2024-07-1005 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 157: Why do Public Schools hate Geography?? (Wed., July 3rd, 2024)Episode 157: why do Public Schools hate Geography? (Wed., July 3rd, 2024)There are no good ideas in our public schools, only garbage expressed in protective sauce.Instead of telling you how to reach your destination, the schools will lay out a program of scuba diving, mah Jong, and fashion tips. You won't get to where you wanted to go. After a while, you won't remember you wanted to go anywhere. A good illustration of this pessimistic view is the triumphant non-teaching of geography in order to promote the criminal non-teaching of history....2024-07-0308 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 156: The Waste of Systemic Ignorance (Wed., June 26, 2024)Episode 156: The Waste of Systemic Ignorance (Wed., June 26, 2024)The situation is simple. The professional educators, as they deceptively call themselves, don't believe in education. They like ignorance.Learn, baby, learn. That should be the chant and the cheer of all educated people.Good School, Bad School.How to tell the difference-- see short video--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to podcast or read transcript.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help my work…Visit Education Reform for a 2-page explanation of what...2024-06-2607 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 155: Sight-Words Are Killing Us. --- Wed., June 19, 2024Reality One, we have to get rid of sight-words, so that literacy will have a chance. Reality Two requires explaining the subject to lots of people. That's done most easily, according to author Linda Goudsmit, with the following one-page method.This explanation requires navigating the chaos of print, like what a child has to deal with. It's better to go directly to TRANSCRIPT.——————-----------------------------------------------------Linda Goudsmit’s current book is Humanitarian Hoaxes. She writes insightfully about the entire range of liberal panaceas that are doing so much to harm us. https://www...2024-06-1907 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 154: "How did our institutes of higher learning turn into Marxist reeducation camps?” (Question on Quora.)Episode 154 - Wednesday, June 12, 2024"‘How did our institutes of higher learning turn into Marxist reeducation camps?” (Question on Quora.)-----A pivotal question which every American should try to answer. Here's my short answer: a vast army of saboteurs has been working in the shadows for more than a century. Here is the chronology, starting in 1883. Marx died. Many people though he was a super-genius, although much of his thinking was garbled. But he was persuasive, and many people have spent their lives trying to make his visions come true.------2024-06-1107 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 153:: What your students need to know about Socialism. (Wed., June 5, 2024)Episode 153:: What your students need to know about Socialism. (Wed., June 5, 2024)Perfect short summary of Socialism and Communism, 5 minutes, for all classesAmerican schools are full of covert Communists and Socialists. They pretend to explain things in long convoluted ways that don't explain very much. Socialism can be a life-and-death choice. So everyone needs to be informed-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Podcasts are presented as Voice and Print (i.e., PODCAST or TRANSCRIPT)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help…Vi...2024-06-0506 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 152: Curriculum Planning, max speed (Wed., May 29, 2024)Episode 152: Curriculum Planning, max speed (Wed., May 29, 2024)Stop teaching nothing all day. Teach all the wonderful things children need to know and want to know. Not to mention, you'll have more fun. Here are about 50 ideas you can use this year. Deliberate Dumbing Down is not an ethical approach. Nor is keeping children in a vacuum so they never grow up.Smart Content Makes Kids Smarterhttp://www.improve-education.org/id88.html---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Podcasts are presented as both voice and print...2024-05-2807 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price151: How Can We Motivate Underachieving Children Who Don't Want to Learn? (question on Quora; first answered on my Substack) Wed. May 22, 2024Episode 151: How Can We Motivate Underachieving Children Who Don't Want to Learn? (question on Quora; first answered on my Substack)Wed., May 22, 2024NB: the public schools are probably much worse than you suspect. But people don't want to deal with that information, so the Education Establishment gets away with doing a lousy job. I'm trying to persuade everybody to be more judgmental, more demanding, more of a catalyst.——--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Relevant article: K-12: In Praise of WOW! Joan Dunn’s book Retreat from Learning is avail...2024-05-2206 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 150: K-12 -- S.N.A.F.U. (Wed., May 15, 2024)Episode 150: K-12 -- S.N.A.F.U. (Wed., May 15, 2024)---Welcome to K-12 where education goes to die.Come on, people, get involved. Kids are dumbed down every day. There's no excuse for it.Every sane idea has been sabotaged and sent into exile. Now we see nothing but counterproductive ideas. Naturally, we have epidemics of illiteracy and ignorance.(S.N.A.F.U. is military slang for Situation Normal -- All Fouled Up.)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Podcasts are presented as voice and prin...2024-05-1507 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 149: YOU should be an education reformer. (Wed., May 8, 2024)Episode 149: YOU should be an education reformer. (Wed., May 8, 2024) Join the good guys, against the duplicitous professors of education who have devised so much sneaky nonsense. I've been calling K-12 a crime scene for 20 years. This is a very liberating notion. Education is a bad part of town. Adults will be robbed, children will be stunted.QED: you should get involved with improving K-12.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SIX STEPS TO REFORM (good article)Mark Dice wants to know how many stars are on the flag? (Video.)...2024-05-0707 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 148: Latin Lives On… and On (Wednesday, May 1, 2024)Episode 148: Latin Lives On… and OnWednesday, May 1, 2024------------Latin Lives On: 333 common words letter for letter identical in Latin and English. Each word is a mnemonic device providing extra texture, extra connections.My list illustrates a general principle: there's always a better, quicker, cheaper way to teach a lot. The Education Establishment should focus on this. Instead of retreating from knowledge, the professors should embrace knowledge with greater cleverness.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Podcasts are presented as voice and print (i.e., TRANSCRIPT)2024-04-3007 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 147: The Great Betrayal: Top Experts Make Millions by Promoting Worst MethodsEpisode 147: The Great Betrayal: Top Experts Make Millions by Promoting Worst Methods (Wed, April 24, 2024)——————————————————————First published as “42: Who Ruined Reading” on Improve-Education.org. Site is now unavailable due to incompetence of hosting company. I’m working on recovery. Our Education Establishment is also incompetent. We have 50 million functional illiterates. Please stop putting up with this. Take a little time to understand the Great Reading Heist. Read “the Meaning of the Lucy Calkins fiasco.”-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Non-phonics instruction leads to poor reading, anxiety, ADHD, reliance on Ritalin, etc. There is no good reason for teaching with sight-words, except...2024-04-2307 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 146: K-12 Boycott: Are You Ready? (Wed., April 17, 2024)K-12 Boycott: Are You Ready? (Wednesday, April 17, 2024)K-12 is too often a bad marriage. The Education Establishment is the alcoholic husband (photo) who beats his long-suffering wife.All the progressive/socialist/communist schemes are dedicated to the idea of using schools to indoctrinate young minds. Real education is about freeing minds. Take that, John Dewey.(For ideas, search “homeschool options.” You'll be amazed at the range of possibilities.)(((Alex Newman in Newsweek: "While Americans once argued about how best to fix the system, today's discussions—especially among conservatives and Chr...2024-04-1607 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 145: Survey Courses? Yes, We Desperately Need Them. (Wed. April 10, 2024)Episode 145: Survey Courses? Yes, We Desperately Need Them. (Wed. April 10, 2024)Our schools have often given up the very idea of teaching lots of stuff, and even if they try, they have no idea how to do it. Train the teachers better and then let them loose.Survey courses can be a great help, but skip the politicking. Left-wing professors think the whole point of education is to indoctrinate kids. What a selfish idea.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Podcasts are presented as voice and print (i.e., TRANSCRIPT)3 help...2024-04-0906 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price144: Best Practice: Teach Items In Clusters (Wed., April 3, 2024)Episode 144: Best Practice: Teach Items In Clusters (Wed., April 3, 2024) If we want to save the schools, we have to teach more information, more quickly.We have to find techniques that will make it easy for students to remember stuff.One of the easiest and most essential methods is using clusters, that is several things united by their similarities.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Podcasts are presented as voice and print (i.e., TRANSCRIPT)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help…Visit Education Reform ...2024-04-0306 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 143: 70 Years Ago, Schools Were Already Sabotaged (Wed., March 27, 2024)70 Years Ago, Schools Were Already Warped (Wed., March 27, 2024)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Joan Dunn, a schoolteacher, wrote a book about her experiences in Brooklyn schools circa 1953. It is a time capsule, showing that quite long ago the professors of education had substantially wrecked everything they touched.I love this book. It’s a grand statement by a very smart sensitive person. Joan Dunn’s description of public schools appeared 70 years ago but already the public schools were a disaster, a crime scene, an intellectual slum. (Book's full title is Retreat From Learning: Why Teachers Can't...2024-03-2707 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 142 - Can Anyone Read? (Wed., March 20, 2024)Episode 142 Wed., March 20, 2024Can Anyone Read?I think that too often the answer is: no, not really. What we have now is a great range of readers, with only the best being what we used to call readers...- - - - - - - - - - - - --- - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - ...2024-03-1907 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceK-12: Nothing Taught. Nothing Learned. (Episode 141: Wed., March 13, 2024)K-12: Nothing Taught. Nothing Learned.(Episode 141 Wed., March 13, 2024)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here’s the premise: K-12 is best understood as a hoax. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(This podcast is short because there are 4 supplemental articles that reinforce the main points:)1) Why Communists love a good con?Because they are determined to destroy US.--------------------------------------------------------------------------2) Sight-words are a con?? Of course. See Episode 123--------------------------------------------------------------------------3) A Letter From the Trenches: Parent Describes K-12 Dystopia https://www.americanthinke...2024-03-1207 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 129: Why Education “Experts” Hate Cursive (Wed., Dec. 20, 2023) Episode 129: Why Education “Experts” Hate CursiveA fast, short explanation of why we need cursive. And why the Education Establishment hates it.American K-12 is the land of slow and partial. Apparently our public schools are in no hurry to go anywhere. Good news: it's easy to fix this.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------MEMO TO K-12, TEACH KIDS TO READ IN FIRST GRADEhttps://www.tumblr.com/edworld/732927928834441216/memo-to-k-12-teach-kids-to-read-in-first-grade-or--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Important info. This podcast appear...2023-12-2007 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 126: The War Against Truth (Part 1) (Nov. 29, 2023)The truth is daily trampled. I'm not joking or exaggerating. For example, phonics is necessary but schools deliver sight-words, which will damage children. Schools won't teach elementary arithmetic. Too difficult or racist. And constructivism fills the rest of the day. Kids are told to construct their own new knowledge. Good luck. So we have hopelessness defended by an army of lies. Please, we have a special red pill for education issues. Take one.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------MEMO TO K-12, TEACH KIDS TO READ IN FIRST GRADEhttps://www.tumblr.com...2023-11-2808 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 122: Good school?? Bad school?? It's so obvious! (November 1, 2023)Episode 122: Good school?? Bad school?? It's so obvious! (November 1, 2023)K-12 REFORM BEGINS HEREThe ship of schools is sinking. Most of the theories and methods used in our public schools are destructive nonsense. The media won't tell you what's going on. But surely the signals emanating from our educational sector reveal intellectual and moral chaos. Let's start sincere reform now. Episode 122 is available as podcast and transcript. There are a half-dozen important links in both. Please, everyone get more involved in knowing what ideologue professors are doing to the country. It...2023-10-3106 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 121: Two Great Books For Smart People (Wed., Oct. 25, 2023)Episode 121: Two Great Books For Smart People (Wed., Oct. 25, 2023)EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUT WERE TOO BUSY TO FIND OUT. The answers are here, in a book titled: Saving K-12: What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them?.... And in a second book titled The Education Enigma. ----------------------------------------------------PS: .Saving K-12, The Education EnigmaI recently found out that these books are listed on Walmart.com. Given that I write about exotic school...2023-10-2406 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 120: Support Education Reform — a true story (Wed., October 18, 2023)Support Education Reform — a true storyDecline of public school education in America is too extensive to be accidental. It's a plan. Every parent needs to understand the dangers and what to do about them..Read Bruce Deitrick Price’s Support Education Reform. Takes about five minutes. You'll find all the information that parents need to fight a misguided Education Establishment.(NOTE: links to the articles and videos can be found on the TRANSCRIPT.)---------------------------------------------------------------------------Three all-purpose, highly compact videos that quicklyex...2023-10-1709 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 119: Schools are dramatically more violent. Why??? (Wed., Oct. 11, 2023)The public schools are a hell hole. Do you think the experts don't know what they're doing?Oh, they know. They know from A-to-Z that everything they do encourages bullying and bad manners, degrades authority, dumbs down the students, and makes everybody's day miserable. They are dangerous, these so-called experts. Most people who have been to ed school should be fired. Bring in new people from sports, entertainment, business, and the military, practical people who care about the culture and the children.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------VIOLENCE VIOLENCE VIOLENCE...2023-10-1108 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 118: Reading Rescued! Thanks to Lucy Calkins (Oct. 4, 2023)Time to celebrate. Reading, real reading, can have a come back. This is big. Please share this announcement with 50 of your favorite people.Reading Wars have raged for almost 100 years. This was never an imaginary thing, a mere figure of speech. It was real Americans, sensible Americans, trying to protect their schools and their children from an infestation. What progressives called education was really a kind of indoctrination, a kind of poison, a kind of engineered stupor. I.e. the deliberate dumbing down of AmericaI kept this thing short so everyone could...2023-10-0407 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 117: Think piece: WHY AND HOW ELITE EDUCATORS DESTROY EDUCATIONWednesday, Sept. 27, 2023For more than 125 years, Education has been a field dominated by far-left thinking. Instead of reading, writing, arithmetic, and other traditional academic content, these ideologues emphasize social engineering and psychological manipulation.These concerns should not be primary in an educational institution. Worst of all, these pretenders were fanatics, always ready to lie on behalf of their quasi-religion. So this is a short explanation of how our public schools ended up without a soul or a brain. Relentless lying justified killing off both.------------------------------------------------------------------------------2023-09-2607 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 116: Tens of millions of Americans can barely read. Everyone should know why. Wed., Sept. 20, 2023Let's get serious about reading. You can teach it only with phonics because English is a phonetic language.All the other stuff is bogus, a distraction, counterfeit. a perversion, a crime against the next generation.If you are preparing pedagogy for a slave population or workers who need to read only short instructions, then sight-words are okay.Otherwise, phonics is the correct prescription.------------------------------------------------------------------------------Biggest Crime in American History (3 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfzo02gWqF0----------------------------------------------------------------------------...2023-09-1907 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 114: Support Education Reform Wednesday, Sept 6, 2023The Education Establishment has cunningly devolved our school system. Little is taught, little is learned. K-12 is a boring hell for most children.After Covid was over, the total number of students had dropped by more than 1 million. These children voted with their feet.Let's stop pretending that the school system is acceptable. It's time to support education reform. That means we figure out what went wrong, and one by one we fix the problems.Most importantly, we stop the social engineering so beloved by the hard left. We return to...2023-09-0606 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 113: America Urgently Needs Better Public Schools (Wed., August 30, 2023)Public schools are bad. There's no excuse for this but there is an explanation. The Education Establishment is far-left, and they don't mind dumbing down education if they can thereby dumb down the country in general.If you want better schools you have to reverse the whole process. Bring back the good ideas that liberals got rid of. Dump the intellectual monstrosities now in the schools.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"SUPPORT EDUCATION REFORM"Please help me improve K-12...Americans should have great public schools. We...2023-08-3008 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 112: School Alert #1: Don’t Accept Lies About Reading. Here's The Truth.School Alert #1: Don’t Accept Lies About Reading. Here's The Truth.What is the single weakest spot in all of education? What is the Achilles heel?Simple. Reading. Teach it properly and children will proceed in normal way to writing, geography, history, science, and the arts. Teach it in a stupid way, and the children are consigned to hell. Culture and civilization atrophy. You'll have a real mess on your hands. Something like the one we have now.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Good background arti...2023-08-2206 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 111: Response on Twitter: “THIS IS ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL AND BRILLIANT.” Wednesday, August 16, 2023Response on Twitter: “THIS IS ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL AND BRILLIANT.” (Wed., August 16, 2023)The Education Establishment has an S&M routine they inflict on the American public, boredom alternating with hopelessness.So much of K-12 education is counterintuitive and counterproductive. Kids are not excited about knowledge; instead they are made dumb by stupid instruction, this being the visible face of the country’s dumbing down.Welcome to an article about a Bill of Rights for students, and how it provoked a passionate endorsement on Twitter, which made me carry on about that's w...2023-08-1506 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 110: What is STEM? Something the Department of Education loves to talk about while making sure nobody can do it.Our Department of Education recently launched a bold initiative called: Raise the Bar: STEM Excellence for All Students initiative.QED: Many noble sentiments. But there seems to be little effort at creating the foundation which would make them possible.--------------------------------------------------------------------Teaching basic science quickly is major requirementfor success in STEM but rarely seen. See 6-minute video. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------Good background article: The War on STEMThis article is five years old; nothing STEM-related has improved.https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/09/k12_the...2023-08-0807 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 109: Nine reasons why our public schools are so hard to rescue (Wed., August 2, 2023)The Education Establishment does not allow K-12 to improve. They like mediocrity. That's why, 30 years ago, George Carlin could announce so confidently, "Nothing will get better. Don't expect it to get better."I hope everyone will get more involved in education. For a statement of my perspectives and proposals, please visit SUPPORT EDUCATION REFORM.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Podcasts are always available as transcripts. SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/support----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The best way...2023-08-0109 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 108: Teach philosophy in K-12?? Yes, definitely! For example… (Wed., July 26, 2023)The Greeks were so clever. Why not take advantage of this? There are hundreds of memorable quotes left by Greek philosophers, a job they may have invented. Use these quotes to draw children into geography, history, logic, etc..The pattern in K-12 education, for more than 100 years, is to ask a question: is this material easy, is it simple? If not, let's not make our children uncomfortable. Let's not make them feel stressed or unqualified. And that's how K-12 became as dumb as a brick.The ed professors are always looking for a...2023-07-2508 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 107: Top 10 Worst Ideas in K-12 (Wednesday, July 19, 2023)Garbage in, garbage out, it's an infallible rule. If you make students do something the dumb, inefficient way, everything goes downhill.If a benevolent alien were to tour our country, his first comment is likely to be, Hey, mate, somebody's playing games. You’re using all the worst ideas known to the universe..---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Podcasts are always available as transcripts. SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PODCAST:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/support----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The best way to understand problems in public schoolsis to...2023-07-1807 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 106: Reading is under attack in our public schools (Wed., June 12, 2023)One phenomenon that still shocks me but shouldn't is that our Education Establishment has one peculiar gift: they can riff for hours about literacy and other vital subjects without ever saying anything important.What our professors tell us is that sometimes birds fly to the east and sometimes they fly to the west and sometimes they move both wings at the same time but sometimes they just glide. In any case we are told just the obvious in weird loops. But we aren’t told causes, or what it means, or where we should go fr...2023-07-1108 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 105: Teachers: maybe it's time to dump the bad theories that hold children down (Wed., July 5, 2023)Keep It Real. No More Theory.You can do something--that's real life. Or you can talk about doing something, which is theory. Too much theory and there's no real life left.I think that education to an astonishing degree is theory-driven. That's professors talking, talking, talking.This means concretely that a bunch of highly paid experts could spend a whole day talking about education and never mention a single thing that students need to learn..Sometimes, just glancing around a room or a street or a scene I...2023-07-0405 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 104: What teachers can learn about teaching from Reaction Videos (Wed., June 28, 2023)Reaction videos are a fairly new phenomenon. This article explains what they are and why they're wonderful. Basically, any video content can be the stimulus for somebody's new video content. Now the audience gets two separate contents but merged.Below are some of my favorites. These are rock 'n' roll because I am a child of rock 'n' roll. But ignore the specifics. Consider the richness of the viewer's experienceThink about how you could react to some content, Then you could play your reaction video for the class, and react to that. A lo...2023-06-2705 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 103: The most obvious conspiracy in the history of the world. (June 21, 2023)What is the favorite gimmick used by Marxists? They promote dumb policies that make society worse. For example, they allow looting and arson in urban centers. For a parallel example, they allow whole word and sight-words in the public schools. Having created lots of pain and destruction, they claim to be the group that can fix everything. That is the gimmick. Blatantly false but not blatant enough because so many Americans accept this nonsense. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Background article: "How to read (and how to fail at reading)"2023-06-2007 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 102: A Best Way To Teach Everything (Wednesday, June 14, 2023)Episode 102: A Best Way To Teach Everything (Wed., June 14, 2023)Schools could teach so much more. Make all instruction much simpler, much faster, much more dramatic. With lots of repetition.Tell the kids what you're going to explain to them, why it’ll be fun, and how they can use the information for the rest of their lives.----------------------------------------------------------------------------Here's what dramatic instruction looks like:A Day in Pompeii (start with this one)The...2023-06-1307 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 101: Can you stand the truth about Mutant Math? (Wednesday, June 7, 2023}Episode 101: Can you stand the truth about Mutant Math?Deep-down you probably can't accept the thought that there are people intentionally sabotaging American children. But there are.They teach math in ways guaranteed to make sure children don't know much math. I quickly explain five of the worst gimmicks. Once you know them, you can help get them out of the schools. ----------- ------- --------The best video on what's wrong with math is called An Inconvenient Truth. It's worth 15 minutes of your time because then you'll know what's been done to the country. (Th...2023-06-0708 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 100: Killing K-12 or Saving K-12??? (May 31, 2023)This is Episode 100 of my podcast "Let's Fix Education.” Buzzsprout says I will get a gold star. Actually, I am somewhat impressed with myself because I went two years without missing a Wednesday deadline.This episode explains the the last-minute change of my book title.My big point throughout is that American K-12 is under attack and everyone needs to find education experts they can trust. I've been writing about K-12 for more than 35 years so I nominate myself. In any case, do not trust the Education Establishment. They created the malaise we live...2023-05-3007 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 99: The most brutal satire in American literature (Wed., May 24, 2023)The most brutal satire in American literature (Wed., May 24, 2023)Reading is the central skill we need in school. That is why the far-left has so persistently tried to discredit and discard phonics. Instead, children must memorize the English language one sight-word at a time. Folly.The passage discussed here is from a famous novel. You might think this satire would laugh the education establishment out of the room. Harper Lee handles this put-down so craftily that most of the targets don't realize that they are being laughed at. 2023-05-2407 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 98: "Every scientist must believe in God.” Mark Liu (Wed., May17, 2023)"Every scientist must believe in God.” Mark Liu Thinking you know all the answers guarantees that you won't know all the answers. Which brings us back to critical thinking, which was the topic here all along. It's a constant irritation to me that our Education Establishment pretends to care about critical thinking or truth generally. They manage to suggest it's like a new suit. You put it on when you want to. Not so. Time and effort are required.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BACKGR...2023-05-1606 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 97: "Parents don't realize the Soviet level of indoctrination that their children are receiving.” Elon MuskInstead of education, kids receive indoctrination. That's not much fun. And when it fades away, the kids have nothing left,Sad truth of the matter. Our public schools are no longer in education business so much as they are in the indoctrination business. That and wasting time.Elon Musk has such a nice way of saying the essence of what needs to be said. "Parents don't realize the Soviet level of indoctrination that their children are receiving.” --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The best way to understand problems in public schools...2023-05-0907 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 96: Interview With A Reading Coach (Wednesday, May 3, 2023)Many public schools insist on teaching sight-words, which guarantees a long slow process. Until the 1930s, our schools taught phonics and we had more than 90% literacy. Then American educators were bamboozled by the clever Marxists, progressives, etc. This had two huge consequences. America's reading level dropped to one of the lowest in the industrialized world.And the children suffer hugely, as the interview with a reading coach will show you.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------But if done right, READING IS EASY -- YOUTUBE VIDEO-----------------------------------------------------------------------The best way...2023-05-0207 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 95: Waiting for Lewis Black (Wed., April 26, 2023)There's a lot of sadness in K-12 but there's also a lot of kinky, this-gang-can’t-shoot-straight humor. All these overpaid, self-anointed experts but they can't teach children to read. Nor count. Nor know very much about the country they live in, never mind the world.All we need now are clever comics eager to take advantage of the Comedy Zone we know as K-12.I always thought Lewis Black was perfectly suited to exploit the opportunities. But I'll bet most of them could get laughs if they wanted to. 2023-04-2507 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 94: K-12: Devoted to Dysfunction (Wed., April 19, 2023)The big theme here is that our K-12 schools are a mess because basically the Education Establishment wants them that way. The main tactic is to teach reading in an inefficient way so that kids don't actually learn to read. Chaos and confusion are the norm. Teachers suffer a lot of stress. It would be easy to fix these problems.FYI: Why teachers are leaving at such an alarming rate----------------------------------------------------------------------The best way to understand problems in public schools is: Saving K-12---------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education2023-04-1807 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 93: Listen To Me, You Rich Successful People In Your Mansions (Wed., April 12, 2023)If you rely on the newspapers you might get the impression the public schools are a jungle. A combat zone. An irrational place no rational person would want to be. Clearly, our schools are out of control and need all the help they can get.We should call on the people at the top, the highly educated and successful people, the movers and shakers, the executive-types who run our society, all of them have to get more involved in stopping the public school decline. Otherwise you have all these crazy ideologues— you could call them socialists and co...2023-04-1107 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 92: Have you, Professors, at long last, no sense of decency? (Wed., April 5, 2023)When Senator McCarthy told Americans there were lots of Communists in Hollywood and throughout Washington DC, pundits shrieked. That's sick. There are no Communists and if you say otherwise, you're crazy.This whole experience is much like when you study American K-12 and find there are scores of badly designed, counterintuitive programs and methods at work. If you accuse the Education Establishment of incompetence and malfeasance, they will shriek: how could you be so silly?Our budgets are relatively huge but international tests (PISA) show we are 17th in reading, 20th in science and even...2023-04-0407 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 91: Education Establishment declares war on rest of country: War of the Worlds (Wed., March 28, 3023Traditionally, Americans believed in competition, knowledge, learning, grades, ability, mastery, truth, logic, all those good things going all the way back to the Greeks.John Dewey and his socialist cartel rejected all those practices. They want cooperation, fairness, equality, equity, inclusion. Everybody's the same, that's the general idea.But why? Because if people are all the same and they're all weak, they're easier to control.------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed School Follies, a wonderful book published in 2001, explains how John Dewey intended to replace the traditional American school system by controlling all the ed schools. S...2023-03-2708 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 90: An Act of War: what the professors of education did to our schools (March 22, 2023)40 years ago, a congressional commission concluded that our public schools are so bad they might as well be an act of war by an unfriendly foreign power.The congressional report was titled A Nation at Risk. This is a big deal. It's not some scholar’s opinion. It's not a reconstruction of something far away. It's what the best people in 1983 thought had happened to us. Namely, the wrong people controlled our schools.The perps were the far-left and the professors of education. They are very skilled at sliding around in the...2023-03-2208 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 89: Memo To Teachers and Parents: Return To Real Reading. (Wednesday, March 15, 2023)With phonics, most children learn to read by the second grade. With sight-words, the majority of child hardly learn to read at all. Consider the vast difference between the two outcomes.----------------------------------------SUPPLEMENTAL ARTICLES: K-12: SIGHT-WORDS ARE A SICK JOKEK-12: PHONICS IS WINNING: =============================Episodes Are Not In Any Order. Start Reading Anywhere. Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------Do you enjoy crime fiction? Here is good news. Art...2023-03-1307 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 88: Tough-Love Speech to Children about Education (Wednesday, March 8, 2023)Here's what children need to be told about school, and why they need to be told. K-12 is like Bernie Madoff's Ponzi. Many thousands of customers thought their money was safe, and making more money every day. Until one day they were told they had no money. All gone. All a sham.And these were sophisticated people, rich people, smart people, successful people. And they have to face the fact that they were pathetic victims of a con.What chance do ordinary people have against this level of trickery. What chance...2023-03-0706 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 87: Can anyone in America do critical thinking? (Wed., March 1, 2023)There's a war against our children. Have you read anything about it in the media? The public schools are dumber each year. Can you explain this?Our Education Establishment should be called the Anti-Education Establishment. Their great genius is to develop theories and methods that stifle the acquisition and use of knowledge. Why do they want to do this?-----------------------------------------------------------------------Background article: K-12: The War Against ChildrenSecond background article: Americans Living Under Communism.-----------------------------------------------------------Episodes Are Not In Any Order. S...2023-02-2807 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 86: Super Bowl LVII, the National Anthem, Chris Stapleton: RESPECT (Wed., Feb., 22, 2023)Everyone feels the difference. Stapleton’s anthem is more serious, somehow more muted but more beautiful. It's the one that people like, because it’s respectful of the history behind the song.There are many reaction videos; here's a good one because of expert commentary.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip5WdqbWK4ERonald Reagan narrates what happened at Fort McHenry, 1812. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaxGNQE5ZLADigital reconstruction of Athens, fifth century BC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulAxMLJ7O7M...2023-02-2106 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 85: Weird Al vs. Professors-Run-Wild (Wed., Feb. 15, 2023)Episode 85: Weird Al vs. Professors-Run-Wild (Wed., Feb. 15, 2023)Professors like to say you can only describe, you can’t prescribe. Of course they are talking about you. They can prescribe all day long. They can tell you to do this, and not to do that, and every variation in between.Besides, there really is near-unanimity between your local newspapers, your favorite TV shows, and your favorite magazines. That's Standard English. So you get some kids raised in the backwoods, and they're hard to understand. Do you want to...2023-02-1508 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 84: Replace top educators. Fire the Education Establishment (Wed., Feb.8, 2023)Parents, teachers, and children are equally victims of the K-12 educational system. Let's not blame them for very much. Let's blame the people at the top, the dangerous desperados which I call the Education Establishment. The United States spends vastly more per capita than any other country. But our public schools end up in 20th place or worse in almost every category.When large businesses or athletic teams have a losing season year after year, the top people are fired. It's the smart, professional thing to do.---------------------------------------------------------Background ar...2023-02-0806 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 83: Our schools are being wrecked by Captains of Ignorance (Wed., February 1, 2023)Some of the goofiest educators that ever lived want to eliminate facts and knowledge from our school system. These pretenders seek to teach only feelings, attitudes, and pain. Our schools are being transformed into rooms full of nothing.If you want to save K-12, you must stop these nihilists, and restore our enjoyment of the smart side of life.NOTE: this podcast is also available as TRANSCRIPT. ---------------------------------------------------------Background article: “K-12: The Knowledge Killers" -----------------------------------------------------------Episodes are not chronological. Start read...2023-01-3107 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 82: The Internet wants to know: What are Chinese schools doing that Americans should adopt? (Wed., January 25, 2023)Episode 82: The Internet wants to know: What are Chinese schools doing that Americans should adopt? (Wed., January 25, 2023)Do you want a quick fix for our public schools? Do what the Chinese do. Hint: that’s everything we did 100 years ago. They are not dummies. They copied us because we did what works. Used to.---------------------------------------------------------Background article: “K-12: History of the Conspiracy Against Reading” -----------------------------------------------------------Episodes are not in any order. Start reading anywhere. Everything remains current because the Education Establishment effectively prohibits change....2023-01-2506 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 80: George Carlin and The Truth about American Education (Wed., Jan. 11)Episode 80: George Carlin and The Truth about American Education (Wed., Jan. 11)Are vastly rich industrialists mainly greedy? That's the common assumption, as Karl Marx explained.George Carlin seems to echo the same vision. The people running our society, or ruining it, are propelled by greed. Even with the very successful people, I don't think greed is the whole answer. Probably it's too simplistic, because that's the kind of thinking Marx did. (Basically, Marx said that money -- i.e., Capital -- explains everything.)In particular, if we want to explain our hard-left (and...2023-01-1106 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 79: Critical Thinking — how to teach it to children (Wed., Jan. 4, 2023)Episode 79: Critical Thinking — how to teach it to children (Wed., Jan. 4, 2023)Teaching something, anything, is the first order of business and the sacred obligation of every school. What we have instead in America is tens of thousands of schools where students spend millions of hours each year but at the end of the year they know hardly one bit more than they did at the beginning.The common problem is letting all content be taught in a swirl of confusion. Schools should organize and prioritize knowledge so it's easy to understand and abso...2023-01-0306 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 78: In 2023, Reasons to be Cheerful — ONE, TWO, THREE (Wed., Dec. 28, 2022)Episode 78: In 2023, Reasons to be Cheerful — ONE, TWO, THREE (Wed., Dec. 28, 2022) Short podcast concludes that Biden has exceeded all expectations for worst possible president.Here's the good news. The weirdness of Biden's judgement and behavior should frighten most average citizens into wanting a return to normalcy. Normal will start to look real good.Share, subscribe, discuss with friends. There is a transcript.----------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price--------------------------------------------Best way to understand problems in pub...2022-12-2806 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 77: What every teacher needs to know (Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022)Episode 77: What every teacher needs to know (Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022)K-12 is full of uninformed teachers and bad techniques. Let's focus on how things should be done. As simply as possible, that's what the master does. Amateurs love confusion and extraneous matter. In the middle of the wedding, let's talk about the history of South America. I was joking, that's exactly what you should not do.It's not a teacher's fault if they've been taught the wrong way to do things.----------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-50202022-12-2108 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 76: Dyslexia is a Fancy Word for Sabotage (Wednesday, December 14, 2022Episode 76: Dyslexia is a Fancy Word for Sabotage (Wednesday, December 14, 2022Here's the bottom line: phonics is essential, because it’s a mnemonic device for dealing with a huge language like English.If you don't have the phonics sounds to remind you how to pronounce the words, you will struggle and stall.College students need more than 100,000 words. A computer might master that many sight-words but if we are talking about your kid, you can forget it.America had universal literacy until 1931 when th...2022-12-1409 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 75: Grammar Nazis Needed (Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022)Episode 75: Grammar Nazis Needed (Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022)As part of the general dumbing-down and brain-scrubbing, today’s students learn little grammar. The Education Establishment believes it's important that everybody be equally uneducated. This is destructive nonsense. Language and all of its aspects have always been a major part of K-12 education. Let’s get back to phonics in the first grade, and a continuous drumbeat of literary matters from that point onward.When looking for guidance, check to see what the homeschoolers are doing. Those people are serious about education. Here are nine option...2022-12-0707 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 73: Best Gift For Smart People—Saving K-12 (Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022)Episode 73: Best Gift For Smart People—Saving K-12 (Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022)Most books about education are boring. So let's announce emphatically: this is a well-written, lively book, and fun to read. I think of K-12 as a crime scene and my job is to describe who did what to whom.K-12 classrooms are full of pedagogical nonsense. Saving K-12 explains how this blight occurred and how we can fix it.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For more info about book and author, see link:https://www.lit4u.com/saving-k-12/2022-11-2104 min
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 69: Making sure schools remain mediocre (Wednesday, October 26, 2022)Episode 69: Making sure students remain mediocre (Wed., Oct. 26, '22)If dumbing down is your goal, you will come up with lots of faux-proposals for better schools. You will try to keep parents off-balance with weird new ideas and startling claims from all directions. You will always try to keep discussions theoretical, abstract, vague, and future-oriented. You will teach all subjects so that you don't leave any traces in the minds of students.The goal is adults with simple minds.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------The best way to unde...2022-10-2608 minLet's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 50: Factoids and Airheads (Wednesday, June 15, 2022)Episode 50: Factoids and Airheads (Wednesday, June 15, 2022)Sorry to mention this unpleasantness but the truth is our Education Establishment hates knowledge. They will pick away at it any way they can think of.------------------------------------------------------------The big picture: Bruce Deitrick Price interviews Linda Goudsmit-----------------------------------------------For info about Frankie, visit Frankie.zone. Let's Fix Education explains to Americans why their schools are so bad. The people in charge prefer mediocrity because they are socialists of one kind or another. If people work together to promote re...2022-06-1507 minLet's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 6: Why Teach History? (24.09 min)Episode 6: Why Teach History? (24.09 min)History is fun. It's also fundamental. You have to know how the world got where it is. Sadly, most of our students have no sense of time, no sense of what came before what. Students can rarely name a date within 50 years, or point to a geographical location within 500 miles. Because nobody ever required even this small degree of precision.Reviews of Bruce Deitrick Price Let's Fix Education explains to Americans why their schools are so bad. The people in charge prefer mediocrity because they a...2021-08-0426 minLet's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 5: What's Missing In Education?? (13:30 min)Episode 5: What's Missing In Education?? (13:30 min)What's missing is education. The traditional content, the basics, the essential skills, the vital academic center—-all of that is missing. The whole reason for building schools has been undermined and continually tossed aside.Bruce Deitrick Price's main education site: Improve-Education.org Let's Fix Education explains to Americans why their schools are so bad. The people in charge prefer mediocrity because they are socialists of one kind or another. If people work together to promote real ed...2021-07-2815 minLet's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick PriceEpisode 4: The Crisis In Education: What Caused It? (18:48 min)Episode 4: The Crisis In Education: What Caused It? (18:48 min)A quick look at the personalities and philosophies that shaped American K-12 education starting more than 100 years ago. These people were mostly Progressives (i.e., Socialists). They had a new vision of why we build schools in the first place. For them, the goal is to create a new kind of child who will then build a new kind of America.Related articles by Bruce Deitrick Price that appeared on American Thinker2021-07-2120 min