Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price

Episode 71: Return to Basics ASAP    (Wednesday, November 9, 2022) Give our elite educators credit. They have worked for 100 years to make the country dumb and dumber. But don't you feel enough is enough? Why don't we try something different? Just as a goof. For the hell of it. We teach the kids lots of interesting events, anecdotes, animals, quotations, discoveries, etc. Do you realize...

Episode 70:  Constructivism is claptrap   (Wednesday. November 2, 2022) Education reformers must understand the gimmicks causing the trouble. What is constructivism? How does it work? What does it do exactly to the children? Details aside, it's everyone's responsibility to get rid of this infection. ----------------- Recent article from American Thinker: Constructivism is dead. Good ridd...

Episode 69:    Making sure students remain mediocre    (Wed., Oct. 26, '22) If dumbing down is your goal, you will come up with lots of faux-proposals for better schools.  You will try to keep parents off-balance with weird new ideas and startling claims from all directions.  You will always try to keep discussions theoretical, abstract, vague, and future-oriented.  You will teach all subject...

Episode 68:  They talk about resiliency; but they give us snowflakes   (Wednesday, October 19, 2022) A lament about the tendency of American K-12 to eliminate hard work and failure, as a way of helping students. Instead of helping them, it makes them weaker. ———————————————— For more about novel mentioned, visit http:// Frankie.zone -------------------------------------------------------- Let's Fi...

Episode 67:  American newspapers don't care about literacy   (Wednesday, October 12, 2022) Logically, newspapers would promote reading with all their strength. But they don't. Where does the illogic come in? Apparently the media and the education system have been entangled for a very long time. So it's not illogic so much as chicanery. They are both engaged in a common hustle, that...

Episode 66:  Six Simple Steps to Save Public Education   (Wednesday, October 5, 2022) American K-12 generates more empty blather than any almost any other subject. Mainly this happens because the official experts don't want to consider ideas that might actually work, so they have to keep people distracted and confused. --------------------------------------------------------------- Background...

Episode 65: Commies and Lies seem to be a case of true love. (Wed., Sept., 28, 2022) George Washington said, I cannot tell a lie. Joe Biden, if he were honest, would say, I cannot tell the truth. I think this shift can destroy our society.  Who are the real champions of chicanery? The Russians, that's who. --------------------------------- Russia expert Marilyn Murray: https://www.themoscowti...

Episode 64: Why the public schools are so bad  (Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022) Most articles about education tend to be vague and soporific. You might almost suspect that the Education Establishment does not want improvement. We need more precise accusations, more exact statements pro and con. Be specific. Here's an example. Sight-words don't work. If you want your children to learn to read,...

Episode 63: The Education Establishment considered as parasite ( Wednesday, September 14, 2022) Let's stop making parasitism so easy.  Let's stop making exploitation so common. Stand back and look at our K-12 system. What do you see? An elaborate, almost trillion-dollar machinery for making children dumber than they actually are.  --------- Background article: K-12 Educrats are Parasites...

Episode 62:  Republicans and Conservatives must learn to fight   (Wednesday, September 7, 2022) Too much passivity, too much letting the Education Establishment decide everything. I'm writing a letter to a political figure now; and I realized I have to focus on encouraging Republicans to be more competitive, more aggressive.  Here's what distinguishes the education arena today: the large...

Episode 61   :  Six Trait Writing and other Hokeypokey   (Wednesday, August 31, 2022) Six Trait Writing is just one little gimmick, to illustrate for you how complicated is the web preventing education from improving. I don't think the Education Establishment pushes for one big unifying idea. Rather each area has its own ideas. That way each school district is on its own; there is no encourag...

Episode 60: Jettison Jargon    (Wednesday, August 24, 2022) The perennial problem is that authoritarians always want more power. One quick way to get it is to change the meaning of words. That is, to play games with the language. What to do about this?  Always preach the virtues of simplicity, sincerity, transparency, and honesty. Say what you mean, and mean what you say. These are the lessons tha...

Episode 59: Scoundrel Time for K-12   (Wednesday, August 17) Several quick proofs that our Education Establishment doesn't care about the country, children, or education itself. ========================================= Videos recommended in the podcast: Do You Americans Know Anything? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TZW6lVLYP0 Newsweek “Too Much, Too Soon"   https://www.newsweek.com/ne...

Episode 58:    Marx and a Pretext for Crime   (Wednesday, August 10, 2022) Karl Marx created a personal style that was heavy on aggression. All the people who got mixed up with him or followed him or tried to learn from him ended up in that style. Napoleon was a big-time conqueror but he didn't have to make everything grotesque for everybody. A guy like Marx leads almost inevitably to a guy l...

Episode 57:  The Big Lie About Elementary Reading   (Wednesday, August 3, 2022 First of all, let's face it, sophistry is an art form. The best professors can spew nonsense week after week, month after month, and most of them hardly know what the others are saying. It's all very medieval. How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Well, if they know sight-words, at least 187 high-fre...

Episode 56:  Russians attack American K-12   (Wednesday, July 27, 2022)  During the 1920s, the Communist International infiltrated American universities, foundations, and media. This long preparation resulted in what might be called the Great Reading Coup  of 1931. Phonics was banished; sight-words were presented as the only acceptable way to teach reading. A mere 20 years later, Rudolf Flesch wro...

Episode 55:  What Is Not A Scam? (Wednesday, July 20, 2022) Scams and more scams… ------------------------------------------- Here's a more precise statement of one part of this podcast: Dr. Zelenko and the other heroes mentioned in this article argued, using different phrases, that no one needed to die from Covid. The key was to recognize during the first few days that a person had Covid. If...

Episode 54:   Social Emotive Mumbo-Jumbo (Wednesday , July 13, 2022) Our professors of education keep coming up with new theories about how classrooms should be conducted. They want less emphasis on knowledge and academic content. They want more emphasis on what the children are thinking and feeling.  This may sound tempting. It might be helpful in some situations. But keep in mind the number of s...

Episode 53:  Taking the education out of education   (Wednesday, July 6, 2022) The plan seems to be to dissolve all content out of the schools, leaving a familiar shell. Easy stuff that children used to learn in middle school is not now learned at all. The younger parents were taught the same way, so they don't notice anything odd. -------- K-12:   The War Against Children So, you might be wo...

Episode 52:  K-12 Education is a Betrayal   (Wednesday. June 29, 2022) Let's not be shy and circumspect. Let's deal with the reality. Millions of children are crippled by what our school system calls “education.” Since the so-called experts do it again each year, we have to assume they are agreed on their goals. Most children will be allowed to read only at a mediocre level.. Phonics is...

Episode 51: The Deep Dark Secrets of Our Public Schools  (Wednesday, 22, 2022)  K-12 is not illogical. It is allowed to look that way. It is much more like a machine spinning precisely. ------------------------------------------------- Background article: Educrats Are Parasites https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/k12_educrats_are_parasites.html ----------------------------------------...

Episode 50:  Factoids and Airheads (Wednesday, June 15, 2022) Sorry to mention this unpleasantness but the truth is our Education Establishment hates knowledge. They will pick away at it any way they can think of. ------------------------------------------------------------ The big picture:   Bruce Deitrick Price interviews Linda Goudsmit ----------------------------------------------- For info ab...

Episode 49: The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America (Wednesday, June 8, 2022) Charlotte Iserbyt is unique in American history. Thanks to a job in bureaucratic Washington DC, she was able to collect official documents by and about all the VIPs in K-12. So, reading this collection is like looking into a dark cave and glimpsing thousands of bats flying around, ------ long text : http://deliberatedumbi...

Episode 48: Chronic problems in K-12 are easily explained   (June 1, 2022 Why have our public schools ceased to function? The answer is really quite simple. ------------------------------------- Operation Headstart was an expensive, dishonest failure. https://www.cato.org/commentary/head-start-tragic-waste-money Operation Start Early feels like a replay. https://sports.yahoo.com/chicago-start-earl...

Episode 47:  Let's Roll Back the Anti-Reading Barbarians   (Wednesday, May 25, 2022) The New York Times has run a giant article revealing that things are not OK in illiteracy land. The good thing about Progressives is that they always push too far, and finally people at all parts of the political spectrum realize that we don't need their stupid ideas. This is an occasion for optimism. Th...