Memo 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...
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Maria 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...
read moreK-12: Like Taking Candy from B...
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...
read moreMassive K-12 Reading Failure E...
Herewith a simple way to understand the destructive failure of most reading instruction in the United States: First, consider our...
read moreA Shocking Tour of K-12 Today
Some of my articles generate hundreds of comments. Many are from angry parents who had to fight with an unresponsive school system...
read moreK-12: the Real Problem is the ...
The only thing most Americans agree on is that the public schools are mediocre. As to why this happened and what we should do next,...
read moreOpen Letter to America’s Media...
Most Americans have heard the news: public schools are wallowing in mediocrity. Millions of kids can’t read, not in any real sense,...
read moreK-12 is The Land of Bad Scienc...
I love WIRED magazine, and read it cover-to-cover every month. If you want to know about a complex digital phenomenon such as ...
read moreK-12: Occupied Territory
By Bruce Deitrick Price – The U.S. government published the dark truth about K-12 schools in the famous “A Nation at...
read morePLAY 60 is a great idea….Now, ...
The simple way to fix K-12 is to fix reading. PLAY 60 is a great idea….Now, how about READ 60? PLAY 60 is the new initiative launched...
read moreWhy is K-12 education reform s...
By Bruce Deitrick Price – Local newspapers in the US don’t cover education in any depth. Maybe they’ll tell you superficial and...
read moreIs Reading about Getting Meani...
Nowadays, if you want to be promoted to the upper echelons of the Education Establishment, there is one big claim you have to repeat...
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UPTON SINCLAIR AWARD WINNERS 2017
Dr. Martin Haberman 1932 – 2012
