Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price

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...

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...

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. --------------------------------...

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...

Episode 142      Wed., March 20, 2024 Can 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 ... - - - - - - - - - - -  - --- - - - - - - - - -- - - - -  - - -- - - - - - - - - - -  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---  - - (Short but comprehensive explanation of the reading wa...

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 podca...

Episode 140: The Legacy of Rita Kramer and the Embarrassment Factor (Wed., March 6, 2024) Subtitle on book: The Miseducation of America's Teachers Kramer:  "T eachers were being taught to teach political propaganda as opposed to academic subjects." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> my Amazon review: >>> my article about Ri...

Episode 139:  You can’t handle the Truth about K-12 (Wed., Feb. 28, 2024) Summary: At every level, in every classroom, the education experts limit knowledge, as if it’s some terrible disease that children should avoid. In a real school, experts do everything possible to encourage children to learn more. Our schools do the opposite, as explained in this podcast. ------------------------------------...

Episode 138: Traditional Education is what we need now  (Wed., Feb. 21, 2024) Watching progressives wreck education is a kind of sport. Maybe some of you think it's fun. I remind you it's tremendously expensive. And your kids will be almost as dumb  five years from now as they are today. Socialists and Communists always want to dumb down the people. The basic plan is, keep the public dum...

Episode 137: Enjoy Real Education  (Wed., February 14, 2024) Excellent new Google project leads students to arts and culture. The tone is loving and peaceful: behold all the beauty in our world. K-12 schools are typically the opposite of what they should be. The people who control the schools have gone rogue. They want to indoctrinate children, not educate them. Visit ArtsandCulture. Google.com ht...

Episode 136: The K-12 Gulag  (Wed., Feb. 7, 2024) INTRO Our schools are doing a lousy job, but the public is so befuddled, there is hardly a squawk. Every American should ask this question: why are we putting up with second-rate schools while paying top dollar? ARTICLES THAT GO WITH THIS PODCAST: Recent NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) figures continue to indicate that only ONE-T...

Episode 135: Educational Wastelands (Wed., Jan. 31, 2024) For more than 100 years, the so-called education wars have always been a deliberate attempt  to sabotage K-12 in America. it's much easier to reform our school system if we understand what befell us. Basically, it was a barbarian invasion by people who don't know anything about education but everything about creating wastelands. M...

Episode 134: Freedom is the  issue. Why did the bold, new President of Argentina come to the UN to state; “ I'm here to tell you that the western world is in danger”? The big issue is freedom. Will we hang onto it?  Or kick it to the curb? NOTE:  "his manners" in paragraph 2 refers to "Trump's manners." -----------------------------------------------------------------...

Episode 133: Don't Be Their Accomplice    (Wed., Jan. 17, 2024) The wrong people are in charge of our schools. You know they are not nice people because they  are always trying to dumb down the schools. My main request to everyone: don't help these unscrupulous people. Obstruct them if you can.  The best thing is to learn more about the bogus theories and methods  now found throughout ou...

Episode 132:  The One Book About Education Everyone Should Rea d  (Wed., Jan. 10, 2024)  A very unexpected and enjoyable book. The lowdown about 20th century education developments written by a smart insider.  World War II was not the first time Germany tried to conquer the United States. The first time was circa 1890 when prestigious German universities sent hundreds of newly minted PhD’s back to...

Please! Can We Stop The Dyslexia Nonsense? Everyone in America should watch this podcast (voice or transcript) You'll know why so many people end up not reading at all or they find that reading is very difficult and unpleasant. Cripple reading and you cripple our entire culture. That's what is happening now. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Research Reveals How K-12 Was Intentionally Sabotaged The podcast Let's Fix Education helps Americans reclaim their public schools. Pick three random numbers from 1 to 130, read those episodes. Then you'll know whether this podcast is helpful for you and/or your friends. For more than 85 years the Education Establishment has relentlessly eliminated the facts and knowledge that had always...

  Episode 129:  Why Education “Experts” Hate Cursive A 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -...

Here's the problem simply stated.  Much of the Education Establishment is terminally, tragically in love with stuff that doesn’t work. These people are the problem. Those who support them are accomplices. Don't be an accomplice. Counterproductive theories and methods have the drastic effect of nullifying all serious attempts at  education. The kids can't read. The kids can't do...

American K-12 drifts ever downward. If you doubt that, this podcast is for you.  (Spoken or transcript. America needs to hear/read this. Pass it on.) oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooo    supporting material for podcast    oooooooooooooooooooo Try these Q&A sites for unsettling encounters with young Americans who don't know how many states are...

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. P...

Suppose that clever enemies managed to eliminate the good theories and methods from our schools. Finally, there's nothing left but bad ideas. What would that look like? Probably just what you would now find in your local schools. Podcast and transcript are short so you can savor what has happened to us. —————————————---------------------------------------- Good background article: The War Aga...

Public schools are now like the Titanic. Sinking fast. We need aggressive reform. We need Resistance. The professors of education at Harvard are obsessed with social engineering. They want to make new kinds of children. How ghoulish. Or Frankenstein-ish. But what we need is educated children. We do this with three simple steps. Safe schools. Children taught to read in first grade. Eliminate Constr...

Episode 123:  Sight-words are a con?? Of course.  (Wed.,  Nov. 6, 2023) Sight-words, always a con, always a funny bit of business that the professors of illiteracy came up with. The field of reading has never been more chaotic and irrational. Every teacher seems to have a video explaining some subtle leap into a better future. But all of these things seem to be mainly concerned with keeping sight-...

Episode 122:   Good school?? Bad school?? It's so obvious! (November 1, 2023) K-12 REFORM BEGINS HERE The 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...