Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
Savvy, practical insights on where our Education Establishment went wrong and how most schools can be improved.LET'S FIX EDUCATION explains the many dysfunctional theories and methods operating within our schools. This podcast is intended for parents, teachers, and community leaders who want education reform.
Each week, LET'S FIX EDUCATION examines another problem in our public schools, such as: Constructivism. Learning styles. Sight-words. No memorization. Cooperative learning. Prior knowledge. Reform math. The dilution of knowledge. Common Core. Project-based learning. Student-centered, etc. In fact, there are DOZENS of counterproductive learning and teaching theories, all made worse by ideological motives.
Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, and education reformer. He has analyzed the problems in education for more than 30 years. Price is the author of "Saving K-12: What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them?" (190 pages) His main education site is Improve-Education.org. For more information about book and author, visit Lit4u.com. Newest novels are "Frankie" (about a harmless robot) and "The Boy Who Saves The World" (about a boy who saves the world).
"Bruce Price’s SAVING K-12 is a MUST read! It is precise, concise and powerful. Action is required…for the sake of our children, our grandchildren and the future of the American Republic!” Robert W. Sweet, Jr., long-time President of The National Right to Read Foundation
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 8 minutes
- Episodes
- 196
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Episode 16: Have the American media betrayed us? (October 13, 2021)
Episode 16: Have the American media betrayed us? (October 13, 2021)
True story, most of the work I've done in my life is related to journalism, writing, publishing, editing, et al. I wanted to thi…
Episode 15: Sir Ken Robinson was wrong and destructive. (October 6, 2021)
Episode 15: Sir Ken Robinson was wrong and destructive. (Oct. 6, 2021)
The grand tradition throughout the history of progressive education is to claim you have solved every problem in the schools, …
Episode 14 (Sept. 29): Socialism versus Education
Episode 14 (Sept. 29): Socialism versus Education.
A lively run-through of the major developments that will take you to socialism or communism.
A key player throughout is education, or education that…
Episode 13: How We Can Save K-12 (Sept. 22, 2021)
Episode 13: How We Can Save K-12
The people running the schools are the people ruining the schools. They think of themselves as saviors from a higher plane. But look at the damage they do. They're …
Episode 12: What does "student centered" even mean? Anything?
Episode 12: what does student centered even mean? Anything? Sept. 15, 2015
When our top educators start suggesting that children can do their job better than they can, we need to let these people ret…
Episode 11: We Can Have Better Schools At Less Cost (Sept. 8)
Episode 11: We Can Have Better Schools At Less Cost (Sept. 8)
More than most people imagine, the entire education sector is set up as a profit-making enterprise.
Sure, most of these people are sociali…
Episode 10, Sept. 1: Max Efficiency: How To Study A New Subject
Episode 10, Sept. 1: Max Efficiency: How To Study A New Subject
Some suggestions on how to make education more efficient.
School is starting. There are many clever young people, probably on a traject…
Episode 9, August 25: Dyslexia…Parents Need To Know The Truth
Episode 9 summary: why dyslexia is for the most part a fraudulent spin on a common school problem. Children don't have dyslexia so much as the schools give them dyslexia-like symptoms.
Public schools …
Episode 8: How To Teach In The Third World (15.11 min)
August 18 -- Episode 8: How To Teach In The Third World (15.11 min)
Poor schools can do great work, conversely a rich country like America can have many dreadful schools. The “third world” is more a s…
Episode 7, August 11: The Proof Is In The Plodding (23:11 min)
Episode 7: The Proof Is In The Plodding (23:11 min)
When students are happy and excited, they're probably learning a lot. However, our public schools are characterized by a lot of plodding, by student…
Episode 6: Why Teach History? (24.09 min)
Episode 6: Why Teach History? (24.09 min)
History is fun. It's also fundamental. You have to know how the world got where it is. Sadly, most of our students have no sense of time, no sense of what ca…
Episode 5: What's Missing In Education?? (13:30 min)
Episode 5: What's Missing In Education?? (13:30 min)
What's missing is education. The traditional content, the basics, the essential skills, the vital academic center—-all of that is missing. The whol…
Episode 4: The Crisis In Education: What Caused It? (18:48 min)
Episode 4: The Crisis In Education: What Caused It? (18:48 min)
A quick look at the personalities and philosophies that shaped American K-12 education starting more than 100 years ago. These people w…
Episode 3: Hey! Teach Those Kids To Read (17:16 min)
Episode 3: Hey! Teach Those Kids To Read (17:16 min)
The United States has 50 million functional illiterates, primarily because the public schools insist on using an inferior method known as sight-wo…
Episode 2: How I Became An Education Reformer (21:14 min)
Episode 2: How I Became An Education Reformer (21:14 min)
I had no grand visions. Rather, I was fascinated by the unnecessary failure throughout the school system. In sports they talk about unforced e…
Episode 1: Students Don’t Know Anything (18:39 min)
Episode 1: Students Don’t Know Anything (18:39 min)
Look at any stats. Listen to K-12 teachers and college professors. The message is always the same. Our young people don't know much, especially the…