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 76: Dyslexia is a Fancy Word for Sabotage (Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Episode 76: Dyslexia is a Fancy Word for Sabotage (Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Here's the bottom line: phonics is essential, because it’s a mnemonic device for dealing with a huge language like Engli…
Episode 75: Grammar Nazis Needed (Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022)
Episode 75: Grammar Nazis Needed (Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022)
As part of the general dumbing-down and brain-scrubbing, today’s students learn little grammar. The Education Establishment believes it's i…
Episode 74: Good-old-boy comic knows more about teaching math than the professors do (Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022)
Episode 74: Good-old-boy comic knows more about teaching math than the professors do (Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022)
Zach Rushing agrees to help a nephew with homework. A good way to bond. But the teacher…
Episode 73: Best Gift For Smart People—Saving K-12 (Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022)
Episode 73: Best Gift For Smart People—Saving K-12 (Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022)
Most books about education are boring. So let's announce emphatically: this is a well-written, lively book, and fun to re…
Episode 72: Systematic education is good (as we see in the field of music) Wednesday, Nov. 16,
Episode 72: Systematic education is good (as we see in the field of music) Wednesday., Nov. 16,
Start small and build, that's the rule in just about every human activity.
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Episode 71: Return to Basics ASAP (Wednesday, November 9, 2022)
Episode 71: Return to Basics ASAP (Wednesday, November 9, 2022)
Give our elite educators credit. They have worked for 100 years to make the country dumb and dumber. But don't you feel enough is enou…
Episode 70: Constructivism is claptrap (Wednesday. November 2, 2022)
Episode 70: Constructivism is claptrap (Wednesday. November 2, 2022)
Education reformers must understand the gimmicks causing the trouble.
What is constructivism? How does it work? What does it do ex…
Episode 69: Making sure schools remain mediocre (Wednesday, October 26, 2022)
Episode 69: Making sure students remain mediocre (Wed., Oct. 26, '22)
If dumbing down is your goal, you will come up with lots of faux-proposals for better schools.
You will try to keep parents of…
Episode 68: They talk about resiliency; but they give us snowflakes (Wednesday, October 19, 2022)
Episode 68: They talk about resiliency; but they give us snowflakes (Wednesday, October 19, 2022)
A lament about the tendency of American K-12 to eliminate hard work and failure, as a way of helping…
Episode 67: American newspapers don't care about literacy (Wed., October 12, 2022)
Episode 67: American newspapers don't care about literacy (Wednesday, October 12, 2022)
Logically, newspapers would promote reading with all their strength. But they don't. Where does the illogic co…
Episode 66: Six Simple Steps to Save Public Education (Wednesday, October 5)
Episode 66: Six Simple Steps to Save Public Education (Wednesday, October 5, 2022)
American K-12 generates more empty blather than any almost any other subject. Mainly this happens because the offi…
Episode 65: Commies and Lies seem to be a case of true love. (Wed., Sept., 28, 2022)
Episode 65: Commies and Lies seem to be a case of true love. (Wed., Sept., 28, 2022)
George Washington said, I cannot tell a lie. Joe Biden, if he were honest, would say, I cannot tell the truth. I th…
Episode 64: Why the public schools are so bad (Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022)
Episode 64: Why the public schools are so bad (Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022)
Most articles about education tend to be vague and soporific. You might almost suspect that the Education Establishment does …
Episode 63: The Education Establishment considered as parasite (Wednesday, September 14, 2022)
Episode 63: The Education Establishment considered as parasite (Wednesday, September 14, 2022)
Let's stop making parasitism so easy. Let's stop making exploitation so common. Stand back and look at o…
Episode 62: Republicans and Conservatives must learn to fight (Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022)
Episode 62: Republicans and Conservatives must learn to fight (Wednesday, September 7, 2022)
Too much passivity, too much letting the Education Establishment decide everything. I'm writing a letter …
Episode 61 : Six Trait Writing and other Hokeypokey (Wednesday, August 31, 2022)
Episode 61 : Six Trait Writing and other Hokeypokey (Wednesday, August 31, 2022)
Six Trait Writing is just one little gimmick, to illustrate for you how complicated is the web preventing education…
Episode 60: Jettison Jargon (Wednesday, August 24, 2022)
Episode 60: Jettison Jargon (Wednesday, August 24, 2022)
The perennial problem is that authoritarians always want more power. One quick way to get it is to change the meaning of words. That is, to p…
Episode 59: Scoundrel Time for K-12 (Wednesday, August 17)
Episode 59: Scoundrel Time for K-12 (Wednesday, August 17)
Several quick proofs that our Education Establishment doesn't care about the country, children, or education itself.
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Episode 58: Marx and a Pretext for Crime (Wednesday, August 10, 2022)
Episode 58: Marx and a Pretext for Crime (Wednesday, August 10, 2022)
Karl Marx created a personal style that was heavy on aggression. All the people who got mixed up with him or followed him or tr…
Episode 57: The Big Lie About Elementary Reading (Wednesday, August 3, 2022)
Episode 57: The Big Lie About Elementary Reading (Wednesday, August 3, 2022
First of all, let's face it, sophistry is an art form. The best professors can spew nonsense week after week, month after …