Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price

Many public schools insist on teaching sight-words, which guarantees a long slow process. Until the 1930s, our schools taught phonics and we had more than 90% literacy. Then American educators were b…

There's a lot of sadness in K-12 but there's also a lot of kinky, this-gang-can’t-shoot-straight humor. All these overpaid, self-anointed experts but they can't teach children to read. Nor count. Nor…

The big theme here is that our K-12 schools are a mess because basically the Education Establishment wants them that way. The main tactic is to teach reading in an inefficient way so that kids don't …

If you rely on the newspapers you might get the impression the public schools are a jungle. A combat zone. An irrational place no rational person would want to be. Clearly, our schools are out of con…

When Senator McCarthy told Americans there were lots of Communists in Hollywood and throughout Washington DC, pundits shrieked. That's sick. There are no Communists and if you say otherwise, you're c…

40 years ago, a congressional commission concluded that our public schools are so bad they might as well be an act of war by an unfriendly foreign power.

The congressional report was titled A Nation a…

With phonics, most children learn to read by the second grade. With sight-words, the majority of child hardly learn to read at all. Consider the vast difference between the two outcomes.

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Here's what children need to be told about school, and why they need to be told.

K-12 is like Bernie Madoff's Ponzi. Many thousands of customers thought their money was safe, and making more money ev…

There's a war against our children. Have you read anything about it in the media? The public schools are dumber each year. Can you explain this?

Our Education Establishment should be called the Anti-E…

Everyone feels the difference. Stapleton’s anthem is more serious, somehow more muted but more beautiful. It's the one that people like, because it’s respectful of the history behind the song.

There a…

Episode 85:  Weird Al  vs.  Professors-Run-Wild  (Wed.,  Feb. 15, 2023)

Professors like to say you can only describe, you can’t prescribe. Of course they are talking about you. 

They can prescribe all …

Parents, teachers, and children are equally victims of the K-12 educational system. Let's not blame them for very much. Let's blame the people at the top, the dangerous desperados which I call the Ed…

Some of the goofiest educators that ever lived want to eliminate facts and knowledge from our school system. These pretenders seek to teach only feelings, attitudes, and pain. Our schools are being t…

Episode 82: The Internet wants to know: What are Chinese schools doing that Americans should adopt? (Wed., January 25, 2023)

Do you want a quick fix for our public schools? Do what the Chinese do. Hin…

Episode 81: Teacher reveals how dysfunctional K-12 really is (Wed., Jan. 18, 2023)

Teachers typically have 18 years of education, but little education takes place.

Thus this tragic summary: “Our ‘educa…

Are vastly rich industrialists mainly greedy?  That's the common assumption, as  Karl Marx explained.

George Carlin see…

Episode 79:  Critical Thinking — how to teach it to children (Wed., Jan. 4, 2023)

Teaching something, anything, is the first order of business and the sacred obligation of every school. What we have i…

Episode 78: In 2023, Reasons to be Cheerful — ONE, TWO, THREE  (Wed., Dec. 28, 2022) 

Short podcast concludes that Biden has exceeded all expectations for worst possible president.

Here's the good news…

Episode 77: What every teacher needs to know (Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022)

K-12 is full of uninformed teachers and bad techniques. Let's focus on how things should be done. As simply as possible, that's …