To teach or not to teach, that...
Bruce Deitrick Price I saw a video on YouTube where somebody I didn’t know explains a famous Robert Browning poem in five...
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K-12: The Schools You Deserve
Thomas Jefferson declared: “The government you elect is the government you deserve.” Wouldn’t the same go for a school system? If you...
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Bruce Deitrick Price The most striking thing about our public schools is that they have been in perpetual decline for many decades....
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4.8.19 – American Thinker “K-12: What Happened to Bill Gates and Common Core?” by Bruce Deitrick Price...
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In 1950 Harvard-educated businessman Albert Lynd published an attack on our Education Establishment. His book was aggressively...
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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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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,...
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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...
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Bruce Deitrick Price Traditional education has taken a real beating the last 75 years. The entire Education Establishment lined up...
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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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(The Fight of The Century) I’ve been studying Rudolf Flesch, the Reading Wars, the Ed Wars, John Dewey, and all points in...
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“A death instinct” in action… To understand the failures of public education, we have to understand the dreams of...
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Summary: when you understand why educators scorn geography, you know all the reasons why American public schools keep getting dumber....
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Fix reading and half of our education problems disappear By Bruce Deitrick Price – It’s a common problem in the US....
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“I, Robot” was recently on the tube. It tells an old story. Robots start off as loyal servants to humanity but they become rewired,...
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