K-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,...
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Open 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...
read moreSight-Words: the Kudzu smother...
A few words about America’s two favorite parasites if you’ve driven on southern interstates, you know kudzu. It’s that leafy vine...
read moreHow K-12 schools make children...
The Education Establishment has been ingenious at finding largely irrelevant approaches to reading. ——————————— How K-12 schools...
read moreWhat to teach. How to teach...
Education officials undermine public schools in two separate ways– What to teach. How to teach…Two different issues. Most...
read moreDoes Bill Gates really want to...
Bill Gates is one of America’s greatest business geniuses. But when he turned to education, his magic touch vanished. He is now known...
read moreHow do we achieve genuine refo...
Bruce Deitrick Price – The editor of an alternative news site asked me if I have suggestions on how to reform public schools....
read moreWhy Kids Can’t Read
By Bruce Deitrick Price – In all reading theories, there is a fundamental concept known as automaticity. This means you know...
read moreK-12 Education: Fatally Mired ...
Education has been a mess for many years. But there was a time decades ago when top people in business, the government, and the...
read more9 Big Reasons Why Public Schoo...
1) Bad Reading Methods. Whole word (also known as sight-words, Dolch words, and many other aliases) is an 85-year flop that never...
read more10 Worst Things Happening in S...
A progressive organization published a list of the “ten worst things” in education. You can learn a lot about why public schools are...
read moreDon’t waste their time. Teach ...
Here’s my favorite story of educational nitwittery. Told that first graders should learn the names of the oceans and continents, a...
read morePublic Schools Promote Culture...
Bruce Deitrick Price – Progressive educators, since the time of John Dewey have been dismissive of knowledge. They tend to...
read moreIs Close Reading a complete fr...
Perhaps not entirely. Any method, no matter how silly, can be used as a change of pace. Let’s stipulate that variety is often a...
read moreReading: a Teacher’s Epiphany...
by Bruce Deitrick Price – If you want to create an illiteracy crisis such as the one we’re living through, you have to do two...
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