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 36: Do you care that public schools have been dumbed down? (March 9, 2022)
Episode 36: Do you care that public schools have been dumbed down? (March 9, 2022)
Our professors of education spend their careers trying to hide the damage they have done. It's a wonder these days…
Episode 35: K-12, Hope and Hopelessness (March 1, 2022)
Episode 35: K-12, Hope and Hopelessness (March 1, 2022)
Short but very important analysis. Truth is, every teacher should listen to this podcast at least twice . Instead of making children suffer a…
Episode 34: How schools get away with teaching next to nothing. (They lie.) Feb. 23, 2022
Episode 34: How schools get away with teaching next to nothing. (They lie.) Feb. 23, 2022
A lot of people write about "the deliberate dumbing down of America." The basic reason for this phenomenon i…
Episode 33: Why is school based on memorization? (Feb.16)
Episode 33: Why is school based on memorization? (Feb. 16)
There are hundreds of small, easy facts that children should know. Remembering these makes it simpler to understand and retain more complic…
Episode 32: Education Elite are Imperialists and Colonialists (Feb. 9, 2022)
Episode 32: Education Elite are Imperialists and Colonialists (Feb. 9, 2022
The Left likes to vilify colonialism and colonialists, people who take over other people’s territory. But what else is our…
Episode 31: Why Don't Our Schools Know How To Teach Reading???? (Feb. 2, 2022)
Episode 31: Why Don't Our Schools Know How To Teach Reading???? (Feb. 2, 2022)
Starting about 1930, American K-12 education was devastated by the witless adoption of a fraud, that is, sight-words in…
Episode 30: How The Deep State Weakens Education in Order to Control the Country (Jan. 26, 2022)
Episode 30: How The Deep State Weakens Education in Order to Control the Country
In fairness, maybe it's just a cult. Maybe it's a strange collection of reckless fanatics. Or maybe it is correctly ca…
Episode 29: Memo To Teachers: Please Come Back To Real Reading (Jan 19, 2022)
Episode 29: Memo To Teachers: Please Come Back To Real Reading (Jan 19, 2022)
In this podcast I mention three reading reformers who specialize in helping teachers. Pick one and let that person’s ide…
Episode 28: Why did Elon Musk say it's easier to land a person on Mars than to change the education system in America? (Jan. 12, 2022)
Episode 28: Why did Elon Musk say it's easier to land a person on Mars than to change the education system in America? (Jan. 12, 2022)
Our professors of education want to assure us that money and rac…
Episode 27: Cheating should be eliminated (Jan. 5, 2022)
Episode 27: Cheating should be eliminated (Jan. 5, 2022)
Episode 27: Cheating, which our public schools tend to enable, is a threat not just to the quality of the schools but to the success of the so…
Episode 26: Normal people don't want absolute power (Dec. 22, 2021)
Episode 26: Normal people don't want absolute power (Dec. 22, 2021)
Socialism/Communism has two tricks: promise everything good, and then be willing to do anything bad. Ruthless schemers make elab…
Episode 25: The Case Against Whole Word (Dec. 15, 2021)
Episode 25: The Case Against Whole Word (Dec. 15, 2021)
Reading is so crucial for young students. Non-phonetic approaches will cripple children before they even start. Don't be misled. All research g…
Episode 24: Communism Is For Haters (Dec. 8, 2021)
Episode 24: Communism Is For Haters (Dec. 8, 2021)
The challenge to our society is to distinguish benevolent do-gooders from people promoting destructive transformation. Eve…
Episode 23: American Business—and Everyone Else—Needs Better Schools (Dec. 1, 2021)
Episode 23: American Business—and Everyone Else—Needs Better Schools (Dec. 1, 2021)
Our public schools are sickly from top to bottom. America is dragged down by this infirmity. Media don't help; ind…
Episode 22: The Ugly Truth About K-12 (Nov. 24, 2021)
Episode 22: The Ugly Truth About K-12 (Nov. 24, 2021)
Our top educators have blabbed almost continuously for a century about all the wonderful reforms they wanted to implement. At bottom, what did th…
Episode 21: A Quick Guide to the Reading Wars (Nov. 17, 2021)
Episode 21: A Quick Guide to the Reading Wars (Nov. 17, 2021)
Reading is the single most important skill. But our public schools insist on teaching it wrong. This is well-known because ed professors…
Episode 20: Reflections on the Ultimate Goal of K-12 Education (Nov. 10, 2021)
Episode 20: Reflections on the Ultimate Goal of K-12 Education (Nov. 10, 2021)
The purpose of this podcast is to tell you gently that our public schools are deformed by two kinds of educational malp…
Episode 19: Big Lies in K-12 (Nov. 3, 2021)
Episode 19: Big Lies in K-12 (Nov. 3, 2021)
Public school are full of dishonesty and deception. Parents have to deal with this. First, understand what's going on. Second, take steps to work around…
Episode 18: Why Liberal Arts Education is Good for Everyone (Oct. 27, 2021)
Episode 18: Why Liberal Arts Education is Good for Everyone (Oct. 27, 2021)
Why have American public schools gotten dumber and dumber over the last hundred years? Simple. Because the schools have s…
Episode 17: Who Can Control The Control Freaks? (Oct. 20, '21)
Episode 17: Who Can Control The Control Freaks? (Oct. 20, '21)
What is the real flaw in progressive education? What is the secret sin? Mainly, progressives act as if they are trying to create the be…