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 176: The Goal Is Not The Goal (Wed., Nov. 13, 2024)
Episode 176: The Goal Is Not The Goal (Wed., Nov. 13, 2024)
There is a lot of bait and switch throughout K-12, in all subjects.
The professors promise you’ll be educated, but instead they make you …
Episode 175: Millions of Children Suffer from Schoolitis Wed., Nov. 6, 2024
Episode 175: Millions of Children Suffer from Schoolitis
Here is a dirty little secret. Experts create clouds of confusion around our schools. Parents do not know what's going on in the schools. O…
Episode 174, What is The Education Enigma? Wed., Oct. 30, 2024
Episode 174, The Education Enigma -- Wed., Oct. 30, 2024
What is THE EDUCATION ENIGMA?
USA spends more money per capita than any other country, but we have the worst schools. And the least edu…
Episode 173: What Are Best Education Topics To Study In Grad School (Wed., Oct. 23, 2024)
Memo to students. Are you looking for good topics to research and write about?
I have been studying education for many years. I've published a lot of material that you will find useful.
So much of th…
Episode 172: Trump threatens to cancel Department of Education. Is this Good? Bad? Or merely a premise for Comedy?
Episode 172: Trump threatens to cancel Department of Education. Is this Good? Bad? Or merely a premise for Comedy? (Wed., Oct. 16, 2024)
K-12 is not a serious place. It’s an endless array of goofy i…
Episode 171: Why Kids Need Multiplication Tables (Wed., October 9, 2024)
Episode 171: Why Kids Need Multiplication Tables (Wed., October 9, 2024)
What is the one method that every student knows is essential for middle and upper level math. It's a list of shortcuts that we …
Episode 170: Critical thinking about why do zebras have stripes? (Wed., Oct. 2, 2024)
Episode 170: Critical thinking about why do zebras have stripes? (Wed., Oct. 2, 2024)
Ed professors play a dangerous game, keeping students ignorant, while pretending that somehow they are being educa…
Episode 169: Make sure your child is reading in first grade. (Wed., Sept.25, 2024)
Episode 169: Make sure your child is reading in first grade. (Wed., Sept.25, 2024)
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K-12 is polluted by bad reading theories. They are killing the country. And if you let them, they will cripple your…
Episode 168: Back To School: Don’t Let Children Be Culturally Illiterate (Wed., Sept. 18, 2024)
Episode 168: Back To School: Don’t Let Children Be Culturally Illiterate (Wed., Sept. 18, 2024)
All of education depends on starting small and building on that foundation. Our public schools have gut…
Episode 167: Back to School: Make Your Students Smarter Faster (Wed., Sept. 11, 2024)
Our country is dumber each year because less and less knowledge is taught in the classroom. Don't accept this incompetence, or what I would call it, malevolence.
Episode 167 offers ideas for making ou…
Episode 166: Back to school: Modern History Elevated by Iron and Steel
Episode 166: Back to school: Modern History Elevated by Iron and Steel Wed., Sept. 4, 2024
SUMMARY: A look at the central ingredient of modern times, namely, the SKYSCRAPER. When did it appear and …
Episode 165: Back to school: Jump into science, e.g., electricity
Episode 165: Back to school: Jump into science, e.g., electricity (Wed. Aug. 28, 2024)
Start small. Teach the littlest amount of information possible. Over time you can give children the fundament…
Episode 164: Back To School: Make Reading #1 Priority (Wed.,August 21, 2024)
Episode 164 Back To School: Make Reading #1 Priority (Wed.,August 21, 2024)
Super-condensed explanation of why the schools can’t teach reading. This is the single most important flaw in American c…
Episode 163: More Good Ideas For Going Back to School
Episode 163: More Good Ideas For Going Back to School
Wed., August 14, 2024
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Let's reclaim the classrooms and fill them with joyful learning.
To understand why the schools ar…
Episode 162; Exploring through Typography Wed., Aug., 7, 2024
Episode 162; Exploring through Typography Wed., Aug., 7, 2024
BACK TO SCHOOL with better ways to do everything.
For example, use graphics and type design to teach reading, aesthetic judgment, mark…
Episode 161: Schools more violent!! Experts pretend to be baffled?? Wed., July 31, 2024
Episode 61: Schools more violent!! Experts pretend to be baffled?? Wed., July 31, 2024
If sight-words and constructivism, didn't work 50 years ago, why do you think they'll work today?
The schools are…
Episode 160: How Ideological Hacks Ruin The Schools (Wed., July 24, 2024)
Episode 160: How Ideological Hacks Ruin The Schools (Wed., July 24, 2024)
Don't let the blizzard of lies confuse you. It's the same pattern over and over. They try to take you off your game. So they …
Episode 159: What About the Attempted "Assassination" of American Children? ( Wed., July 17, 2024)
Episode 159: What About the Attempted Assassination of American Children?
Wed., July 17, 2024
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Episode 158: Public Schools gone to hell?? Who you gonna call??
Episode 158: Public Schools gone to hell?? Who you gonna call??
Wed., July 10, 2024
Basically all education, in all times and places, can be described as incremental mastery. You learn a little today …
Episode 157: Why do Public Schools hate Geography?? (Wed., July 3rd, 2024)
Episode 157: why do Public Schools hate Geography? (Wed., July 3rd, 2024)
There are no good ideas in our public schools, only garbage expressed in protective sauce.
Instead of telling you how to reach…