Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price

Episode 121: Two Great Books For Smart People  (Wed., Oct. 25, 2023) EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT  OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUT WERE TOO BUSY TO FIND OUT.  The answers are here, in a book titled: Saving K-12: What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them?.... And in a second book titled The Education Enigma.                                            -----------------------------...

Support Education Reform  — a true story Decline of public school education in America is too extensive to be accidental. It's a plan. Every parent needs to understand the dangers and what to do about them.. Read Bruce Deitrick Price’s Support Education Reform.  Takes about five minutes. You'll find all the information that parents need to fight a misguided Education Establishment. (NOTE...

The public schools are a hell hole. Do you think the experts don't know what they're doing? Oh, they know. They know from A-to-Z that everything they do encourages bullying and bad manners, degrades authority, dumbs down the students, and makes everybody's day miserable. They are dangerous, these so-called experts.  Most people who have been  to ed school should be fired. Bring in n...

Time to celebrate. Reading, real reading, can have a come back. This is big. Please share this announcement with 50 of your favorite people. Reading Wars have raged for almost 100 years. This was never an imaginary thing, a mere figure of speech. It was real Americans, sensible Americans, trying to protect their schools and their children from an infestation. What progressives called education was...

Wednesday,  Sept. 27, 2023 For more than 125 years, Education has been a field dominated by far-left thinking. Instead of reading, writing, arithmetic, and other traditional academic content, these ideologues emphasize social engineering and psychological manipulation. These concerns should not be primary in an educational institution. Worst of all, these pretenders were fanatics, always ready to...

Let's get serious about reading. You can teach it only with phonics  because English is a phonetic language. All the other stuff is bogus, a distraction, counterfeit. a perversion, a crime against the next generation. If you are preparing pedagogy for a slave population or workers who need to read only short instructions, then sight-words are okay. Otherwise, phonics  is the correct prescript...

Episode 115   --   Wed., Sept. 13, 2023 There are good ways and bad ways to do everything. John Saxon was obsessed with finding the best ways to teach major subjects, especially math. Our public schools seem not to share that obsession. John Saxon has been gone 28 years but his spirit and his famous textbooks endure. Every parent should understand what John Saxon was trying to tell us ------------...

The Education Establishment has cunningly devolved our school system. Little is taught, little is learned. K-12 is a boring hell for most children. After Covid was over, the total number of students had dropped by more than 1 million. These children voted with their feet. Let's stop pretending that the school system is acceptable. It's time to support education reform. That means we figu...

Public schools are bad. There's no excuse for this but there is an explanation.  The Education Establishment is far-left, and they don't mind dumbing down education if they can thereby dumb down the country in general. If you want better schools you have to reverse the whole process. Bring back the good ideas that liberals got rid of. Dump the intellectual monstrosities now in the school...

School Alert #1:  Don’t Accept Lies About Reading. Here's The Truth. What is the single weakest spot in all of education? What is the Achilles heel? Simple . Reading. Teach it properly and children will proceed in normal way to writing, geography, history, science, and the arts.  Teach it in a stupid way, and the children are consigned to hell. Culture and civilization atrophy. You'll ha...

Response on Twitter: “THIS IS ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL AND BRILLIANT.”   (Wed.,  August 16, 2023) The Education Establishment has an S&M routine they inflict on the American public, boredom alternating with hopelessness. So much of K-12 education is counterintuitive and counterproductive. Kids are not excited about knowledge; instead they are made dumb by stupid instruction, this being the visible f...

Our Department of Education recently launched a bold initiative called: Raise the Bar: STEM Excellence for All Students initiative . QED: Many noble sentiments. But there seems to be little effort at creating the foundation which would make them  possible. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Teaching basic science quickly is major requirement for success in STEM bu...

The Education Establishment does not allow K-12 to improve. They like mediocrity. That's why, 30 years ago, George Carlin could announce so confidently, " Nothing will get better. Don't expect it to get better." I hope everyone will get more involved in education. For a statement of my perspectives and proposals, please visit SUPPORT EDUCATION REFORM . -------------------------...

The Greeks were so clever. Why not take advantage of this? There are hundreds of memorable quotes left by Greek philosophers, a job they may have invented. Use these quotes to draw children into geography, history, logic, etc.. The pattern in K-12 education, for more than 100 years, is to ask a question: is this material easy, is it simple? If not,  let's not make our children uncomfortable....

Garbage in, garbage out, it's an infallible rule. If you make students do something the dumb, inefficient way, everything goes downhill. If a benevolent alien were to tour our country, his first comment is likely to be, Hey, mate, somebody's playing games. You’re using all the worst ideas known to the universe.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------...

One phenomenon that still shocks me but shouldn't is that our Education Establishment has one peculiar gift: they can riff for hours about literacy and other vital subjects without ever saying anything important. What our professors tell us is that sometimes birds fly to the east and sometimes they fly to the west and sometimes they move both wings at the same time but sometimes they just gli...

Keep It Real. No  More Theory. You can do something--that's real life. Or you can talk about doing something, which is theory. Too much theory and there's no real life left. I think that education to an astonishing degree is theory-driven. That's professors talking, talking, talking. This means concretely that a bunch of highly paid experts could spend a whole day talking about educ...

Reaction videos are a fairly new phenomenon. This article explains what they are and why they're wonderful.  Basically, any video content  can be the stimulus for somebody's new video content. Now the audience gets two separate contents but merged. Below are some of my favorites. These are rock 'n' roll because I am a child of rock 'n' roll. But ignore the specifics. ...

What is the favorite gimmick used by Marxists? They promote dumb policies that make society worse. For example, they allow looting and arson in urban centers. For a parallel example, they allow whole word and sight-words in the public schools.  Having created lots of pain and destruction, they claim to be the group that can fix everything. That is the gimmick. Blatantly false but not blatant enoug...

Episode 102: A Best Way To Teach Everything  (Wed., June 14, 2023) Schools could teach so much more. M a ke all instruction much simpler, much faster, much more dramatic. With lots of repetition. Tell the kids what you're going to explain to them, why it’ll be fun, and how they can use the information for the rest of their lives. ---------------------------------------------------------------...

Episode 101:  Can you stand the truth about Mutant Math? Deep-down you probably can't accept the thought that there are people intentionally sabotaging American children. But there are. They teach math in ways guaranteed to make sure children don't know much math. I quickly explain five of the worst gimmicks. Once you know them, you can help get them out of the schools. -----------     ...

This is Episode 100 of my podcast "Let's Fix Education.” Buzzsprout says I will get a gold star.  Actually, I am somewhat impressed with myself because I went two years without missing a Wednesday deadline. This episode explains the the last-minute change of my book title. My big point throughout is that American K-12 is under attack and everyone needs to find education experts they can...

The most brutal satire in American literature  (Wed., May 24, 2023) Reading is the central skill we need in school. That is why the far-left has so persistently tried to discredit and discard phonics. Instead, children must memorize the English language one sight-word at a time. Folly. The passage discussed here is from a famous novel. You might think this satire would laugh the education establis...

" Every scientist must believe in God.”    Mark Liu   Thinking you know all the answers guarantees that you won't know all the answers. Which brings us back to critical thinking, which was the topic here all along.  It's a constant irritation to me that our Education Establishment pretends to care about critical thinking or truth generally. They manage to suggest it's like a ne...

Instead of education, kids receive indoctrination. That's not much fun. And when it fades away, the kids have nothing left, Sad truth of the matter. Our public schools are no longer in education business so much as they are in the indoctrination business. That and wasting time. Elon Musk has such a nice way of saying the essence of what needs to be said. " Parents  don't realize the...