Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price

Episode 156: The Waste of Systemic Ignorance   (Wed., June 26, 2024)

The situation is simple. The professional educators, as they deceptively call themselves, don't believe in education. They like ign…

Reality One, we have to get rid of sight-words, so that literacy will have a chance. Reality Two requires explaining the subject to lots of people. That's done most easily, according to author Linda …

Episode 154      -     Wednesday, June 12, 2024

"‘How did our institutes of higher learning turn into Marxist reeducation camps?” (Question on Quora.)

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A pivotal question which every American shoul…

Episode 153:: What your students need to know about Socialism. 

 (Wed., June 5, 2024)

Perfect short summary of Socialism and Communism, 5 minutes, for all classes

American schools are full of covert Com…

Episode 152:  Curriculum Planning, max speed   (Wed., May 29, 2024)


Stop teaching nothing all day.  Teach all the wonderful things children need to know and want to know. Not to mention, you'll have m…

Episode 151: How Can We Motivate Underachieving Children Who Don't Want to Learn? (question on Quora; first answered on my Substack)

Wed.,  May 22, 2024

NB: the public schools are probably much worse t…

Episode 150:   K-12 --  S.N.A.F.U.  (Wed., May 15, 2024)

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Welcome to K-12 where education goes to die.

Come on, people, get involved. Kids are dumbed down every day. There's no excuse for it.

Every sa…

Episode 149: YOU should be an education reformer.  (Wed., May 8, 2024)


Join the good guys, against the duplicitous professors of education who have devised so much sneaky nonsense.

I've been calling …

Episode 148:    Latin Lives On… and On

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

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Latin Lives On:  333 common words letter for letter identical in Latin and English. Each word is a mnemonic device providing ex…

Episode 147: The Great Betrayal: Top Experts Make Millions by Promoting Worst Methods  (Wed, April 24, 2024)

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First published as “42: Who Ruined Reading” on Improve-Education.org.…

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 progr…

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 h…

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 w…

70 Years Ago, Schools Were Already Warped  (Wed., March 27, 2024)

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Joan Dunn, a schoolteacher, wrote a …

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…

K-12:  Nothing Taught. Nothing Learned.

(Episode 141     Wed., March 13, 2024)

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Here’s the premise:   K-12 is best unders…

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:  "Teachers were being taught to teach politica…

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 child…

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…

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 s…