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 116: Tens of millions of Americans can barely read. Everyone should know why. Wed., Sept. 20, 2023
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…
Episode 115: Great News about John Saxon and his Marvelous Math Books
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 schoo…
Episode 114: Support Education Reform Wednesday, Sept 6, 2023
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 h…
Episode 113: America Urgently Needs Better Public Schools (Wed., August 30, 2023)
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 c…
Episode 112: School Alert #1: Don’t Accept Lies About Reading. Here's The Truth.
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…
Episode 111: Response on Twitter: “THIS IS ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL AND BRILLIANT.” Wednesday, August 16, 2023
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 …
Episode 110: What is STEM? Something the Department of Education loves to talk about while making sure nobody can do it.
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 c…
Episode 109: Nine reasons why our public schools are so hard to rescue (Wed., August 2, 2023)
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 g…
Episode 108: Teach philosophy in K-12?? Yes, definitely! For example… (Wed., July 26, 2023)
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 geog…
Episode 107: Top 10 Worst Ideas in K-12 (Wednesday, July 19, 2023)
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 comme…
Episode 106: Reading is under attack in our public schools (Wed., June 12, 2023)
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 anythi…
Episode 105: Teachers: maybe it's time to dump the bad theories that hold children down (Wed., July 5, 2023)
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 a…
Episode 104: What teachers can learn about teaching from Reaction Videos (Wed., June 28, 2023)
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…
Episode 103: The most obvious conspiracy in the history of the world. (June 21, 2023)
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…
Episode 102: A Best Way To Teach Everything (Wednesday, June 14, 2023)
Episode 102: A Best Way To Teach Everything (Wed., June 14, 2023)
Schools could teach so much more. Make all instruction much simpler, much faster, much more dramatic. With lots of repetition.
Tell th…
Episode 101: Can you stand the truth about Mutant Math? (Wednesday, June 7, 2023}
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…
Episode 100: Killing K-12 or Saving K-12??? (May 31, 2023)
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 de…
Episode 99: The most brutal satire in American literature (Wed., May 24, 2023)
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.…
Episode 98: "Every scientist must believe in God.” Mark Liu (Wed., May17, 2023)
"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…
Episode 97: "Parents don't realize the Soviet level of indoctrination that their children are receiving.” Elon Musk
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 busin…