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
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
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 read. I think of K-12 as a crime scene and my job is to describe who did what to whom.
K-12 classrooms are full of pedagogical nonsense. Saving K-12 explains how this blight occurred and how we can fix it.
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For more info about book and author, see link:
https://www.lit4u.com/saving-k-12/
See reviews and testimonials here:
https://www.amazon.com/SAVING-K-12-Happened-Public-Schools/dp/1681143615#customerReviews
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Saving K-12 by Bruce Deitrick Price is available in paperback and ebook.
For info on Bruce's other books, see Lit4u.com
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Let's Fix Education explains to Americans why their schools are so bad. The people in charge prefer mediocrity because they are socialists of one kind or another. If people work together to promote real education, we'll have it.
Welcome to Episode 73 of Let's Fix Education by Bruce Deitrick Price
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Best Gift For Smart People—Saving K-12!
Ladies and gentlemen…
Saving K-12, a 188-page book, remains the best guide for understanding why the public schools are bad and how to fix them.
Do you like succinctness? A single page summarizes the 10 worst ideas now sabotaging the public schools:
Bad idea 1) Math is chaotically taught (children don’t master even simple arithmetic).
Bad idea 2) Flawed reading instruction is used (only one-third of children read “proficiently”).
Bad iIdea 3) Basic facts and skills are not taught.
Bad idea 4) Guessing is encouraged in all subjects (this is especially devastating in reading as real readers don’t guess, they read).
Bad idea 5) Constructivism is injected into every course (children must “reinvent the wheel”).
Bad idea 6) Group learning is everywhere enforced (children don’t learn to think independently).
Bad idea 7) Memorization is scorned.
Bad idea 8) Self-esteem is relentlessly pushed in all situations.
Bad idea 9) Handwriting is not taught even though this skill helps with reading, writing, vocabulary, etc.
Bad idea 10) Standards are kept low (fuzziness praised, precision disdained, sloppiness tolerated, ignorance accepted).
Our Education Establishment is more focused on indoctrination than on intellectual engineering. They favor bogus classroom methods, apparently because they have found that real education gets in the way of their social engineering schemes.
Bottom line, if you want to understand K-12, read my book. I’ve been writing about education for 35 years. It’s a murky, dishonest field. The education professors don’t want you to understand what they’re doing to your children. You need to understand this.
Summing up: the best, simplest way for anyone to help American education is to order copies of this book and give them to your smart friends.
Thank you.