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 56: Russians attack American K-12 (Wednesday, July 27, 2022)
Episode 56: Russians attack American K-12 (Wednesday, July 27, 2022)
During the 1920s, the Communist International infiltrated American universities, foundations, and media. This long preparation r…
Episode 55: What Is Not A Scam? (Wednesday, July 20, 2022)
Episode 55: What Is Not A Scam? (Wednesday, July 20, 2022)
Scams and more scams…
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Here's a more precise statement of one part of this podcast: Dr. Zelenko and…
Episode 54: Social Emotive Mumbo-Jumbo (Wednesday, July 13, 2022)
Episode 54: Social Emotive Mumbo-Jumbo (Wednesday, July 13, 2022)
Our professors of education keep coming up with new theories about how classrooms should be conducted. They want less emphasis on kn…
Episode 53: Taking the education out of education (Wednesday, July 6, 2022)
Episode 53: Taking the education out of education (Wednesday, July 6, 2022)
The plan seems to be to dissolve all content out of the schools, leaving a familiar shell. Easy stuff that children used …
Episode 52: K-12 Education is a Betrayal (Wednesday. June 29, 2022)
Episode 52: K-12 Education is a Betrayal (Wednesday. June 29, 2022)
Let's not be shy and circumspect. Let's deal with the reality. Millions of children are crippled by what our school system calls …
Episode 51: The Deep Dark Secrets of Our Public Schools (Wednesday, 22, 2022)
Episode 51: The Deep Dark Secrets of Our Public Schools (Wednesday, 22, 2022)
K-12 is not illogical. It is allowed to look that way. It is much more like a machine spinning precisely.
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Episode 50: Factoids and Airheads (Wednesday, June 15, 2022)
Episode 50: Factoids and Airheads (Wednesday, June 15, 2022)
Sorry to mention this unpleasantness but the truth is our Education Establishment hates knowledge. They will pick away at it any way they …
Episode 49: The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America (Wednesday, June 8, 2022)
Episode 49: The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America (Wednesday, June 8, 2022)
Charlotte Iserbyt is unique in American history. Thanks to a job in bureaucratic Washington DC, she was able to collect off…
Episode 48: Chronic problems in K-12 are easily explained (June 1, 2022)
Episode 48: Chronic problems in K-12 are easily explained (June 1, 2022
Why have our public schools ceased to function? The answer is really quite simple.
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Operatio…
Episode 47: Let's Roll Back the Anti-Reading Barbarians (Wednesday, May 25, 2022)
Episode 47: Let's Roll Back the Anti-Reading Barbarians (Wednesday, May 25, 2022)
The New York Times has run a giant article revealing that things are not OK in illiteracy land. The good thing abo…
Episode 46: Best Way To Teach Critical Thinking (Wed., May 18, 2022)
Episode 46: Best Way To Teach Critical Thinking (Wed., May 18, 2022)
Here is just one of many hundreds of entertaining videos that might be used to engage children in spirited discussion and debate.
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Episode 45: Let's Look at the Broader Patterns (May 11, 2022)
Episode 45: Let's Look at the Broader Patterns (May 11, 2022)
As the brainy physicists say, let's try some thought experiments. Think of the way our schools are run and how the students are treated…
Episode 44: Don't believe me. Trust your common sense. (Wednesday, May 4, 2022)
Episode 44: Don't believe me. Trust your common sense. (Wednesday, May 4, 2022)
Truth is, the Education Establishment is great at one thing, sophistry. They can tie the average citizen in knots. Bamb…
Episode 43: There are always better ways to teach everything. (April 27, 2022)
Episode 43: There are always better ways to teach everything. (April 27, 2022)
Students are crippled and discouraged by dreadful pedagogy about boring and useless topics.
You, a typical adult, probabl…
Episode 42: Please, people, stop being pushovers (April 20 2022)
Episode 42: Please, people, stop being pushovers (April 20 2022)
My theory is that the Education Establishment is dumbing down the country and schools. But that's only half the problem. The other ha…
Episode 41: K-12: Education: “Hello, dumbness, my old friend” (Wednesday, April 13, 2022)
Episode 41: K-12: Education: “Hello, dumbness, my old friend” (Wednesday, April 13, 2022)
A short presentation of the idea that our public schools are devoted to dumbing down the population. There i…
Episode 40: Keep It Fast, Fool (Wednesday, April 6, 2022)
Episode 40: Keep It Fast, Fool (Wednesday, April 6, 2022)
I'm trying to lead a rebellion against slow, tedious, boring, and otherwise stultifying schools. We live in a highly energetic and creative …
Episode 39: Priority One is Basic Knowledge (Wednesday, March 30, 2022)
Episode 39: Priority One is Basic Knowledge (Wednesday, March 30, 2022)
Everything we learn enables us to learn still more things. Keep a child ignorant and you stunt that child’s capacity for learni…
Episode 38: Mutilating Math (March 23, 2022)
Episode 38: Mutilating Math (March 23, 2022)
New Math in 1964, Reform Math circa 1984, Common Core Math by 2010—arguably these are all the same thing. A long drawn-out attempt to make sure that avera…
Episode 37: Constructivism is the answer to everything. Oh, really?! (Wed., March 16, 2022)
Episode 37: Constructivism is the answer to everything. Oh, really?! (Wed., March 16, 2022)
The claims for Constructivism are pie in the sky. It's hard to realize that our experts are talking about …