K-12: Why So Little For The Mi...
Many critics say that our public schools are a train wreck. In Charlotte Iserbyt’s memorable phrase, we are all victims of “the...
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K-12: The Politics of Illitera...
Bruce Deitrick Price The New York Times awakes from a long sleepK-12: The Politics of Illiteracy A real OMG moment occurred last...
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(Background: obscure 1970 essay by Ayn Rand explains in painful depth the many fallacies of Progressive education.) Lots of...
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I think it’s a fair suspicion that our Education Establishment lie much too often. If not that, their ideas are narrow,...
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“Brave New World” clarifies why we have so much semi-literacy in our public schools today. The secret resides in what’s taught,...
read moreK 12: Customizable Learning Me...
Touted as another cure-all, mass customized learning means a more incoherent society. According to the people controlling our public...
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Teach all children to read and half of our school problems will disappear. Robert Sweet No less an authority than Robert Sweet,...
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In the late winter of 1964, Kitty Genovese was murdered in a residential part of Queens, New York. Newspapers claimed that 38...
read moreHow to Bring Back Traditional ...
Bruce Deitrick Price Traditional education has taken a real beating the last 75 years. The entire Education Establishment lined up...
read moreMemo to K-12 students: Resist
By Bruce Deitrick Price – Okay, kids, gather round the campfire. There is something you need to know. Something scary. You are...
read moreMaria Montessori vs. John Dewe...
(The Fight of The Century) I’ve been studying Rudolf Flesch, the Reading Wars, the Ed Wars, John Dewey, and all points in...
read moreSocialism versus Education
“A death instinct” in action… To understand the failures of public education, we have to understand the dreams of...
read moreFour Reasons Why Educators Hat...
Summary: when you understand why educators scorn geography, you know all the reasons why American public schools keep getting dumber....
read more“My kid can’t read...
Fix reading and half of our education problems disappear By Bruce Deitrick Price – It’s a common problem in the US....
read moreWho Is Dumbing Down The Public...
“I, Robot” was recently on the tube. It tells an old story. Robots start off as loyal servants to humanity but they become rewired,...
read moreInterview with Siegfried Engel...
Siegfried Engelmann is the real thing, an educator who loves to teach children and knows how to do it, both personally and in his...
read moreThe Continuing War Against Bla...
The biggest damage is committed by so-called educators. They don’t believe in foundational knowledge or basic skills. There is a...
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By Bruce Deitrick Price – This cliché usually carries a double message: something is easy to do but shameful. No decent person...
read moreTeaching Children To Read – Th...
There are two ways to teach children to read. THE WRONG WAY: Whole Word advocates say children should memorize the shapes of words...
read moreTeachers Can Save K-12
A lot of teachers might be stunned to find that many Americans blame our K-12 problems on teachers. The general complaint is that...
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