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Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price

Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price

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Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price is a education podcast hosted by Bruce Deitrick Price. It has 196 episodes, with the latest published April 2025.

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 mai

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Episode 196: Education reformers agree: Sight-words are a con (Wed, April 2, 2025)

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Episode 195: Wait. Can A Mere Boy Save The World?? (Wed, March 26, 2025)

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Episode 194: The 8000-pound Guerrilla in the Classroom?? (Wed, March 19, 2025)

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Episode 193, Big Picture Thinking: Wed, March 12, 2025

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Episode 192: "Why are underperforming schools in American urban neighborhoods difficult to turn around?" (Quora Question) Wed, March 5, 2025

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Episode 191: How To Teach Philosophy Every Day (Wed, Feb 26, 2025)

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Episode 190: No more Department of Education?? Wonderful idea!! (Wed, Feb 19, 2025)

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Episode 189: Government Tests Confirm Decline (Wed, Feb. 12, 2025 (but late)

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Episode 188: What IsThe Right Amount Of Linguistic Education For American Students? Wed, Feb 5, 2025

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Episode 187: There’s no Mental like Experimental (Wed, Jan. 29, 2025)

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Episode 186: What Do American Kids Learn In Grade One? (Quora question) Wed, Jan 22, 2025

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Episode 185: Bullying! Cheating! Phones in class!... Everybody complains.... Nobody has answers.

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Episode 184: Why American Public Schools Can’t Teach Children To Read? The Secret Story

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Episode 183: Celebrate the New Year with my Most Popular Podcast (Wed., Jan. 1, 2025)

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Episode 182: How To Teach More (Wed, Dec 25, 2024)

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Episode 181: My Italy Speech Revisited (Wed, Dec. 18, 2024)

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Episode 180: The Unrelenting Attack On Reading (Wed., Dec. 11, 2024)

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Episode 179: Religion versus Science: where’s that go? (Wed., Dec. 4, 2024)

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Episode 178: Big Pharma, Big Ed, and the Fauci Falsie (Wed., Nov. 27, 2024)

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Episode 177: The Scariest Shift Is The Growing Indifference To TRUTH. Wed., Nov. 20, 2024

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Episode 176: The Goal Is Not The Goal (Wed., Nov. 13, 2024)

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Episode 175: Millions of Children Suffer from Schoolitis Wed., Nov. 6, 2024

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Episode 174, What is The Education Enigma? Wed., Oct. 30, 2024

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Episode 173: What Are Best Education Topics To Study In Grad School (Wed., Oct. 23, 2024)

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Episode 172: Trump threatens to cancel Department of Education. Is this Good? Bad? Or merely a premise for Comedy?

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Episode 171: Why Kids Need Multiplication Tables (Wed., October 9, 2024)

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Episode 170: Critical thinking about why do zebras have stripes? (Wed., Oct. 2, 2024)

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Episode 169: Make sure your child is reading in first grade. (Wed., Sept.25, 2024)

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Episode 168: Back To School: Don’t Let Children Be Culturally Illiterate (Wed., Sept. 18, 2024)

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Episode 167: Back to School: Make Your Students Smarter Faster (Wed., Sept. 11, 2024)

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Episode 166: Back to school: Modern History Elevated by Iron and Steel

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Episode 165: Back to school: Jump into science, e.g., electricity

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Episode 164: Back To School: Make Reading #1 Priority (Wed.,August 21, 2024)

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Episode 163: More Good Ideas For Going Back to School

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Episode 162; Exploring through Typography Wed., Aug., 7, 2024

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Episode 161: Schools more violent!! Experts pretend to be baffled?? Wed., July 31, 2024

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Episode 160: How Ideological Hacks Ruin The Schools (Wed., July 24, 2024)

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Episode 159: What About the Attempted "Assassination" of American Children? ( Wed., July 17, 2024)

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Episode 158: Public Schools gone to hell?? Who you gonna call??

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Episode 157: Why do Public Schools hate Geography?? (Wed., July 3rd, 2024)

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Episode 156: The Waste of Systemic Ignorance (Wed., June 26, 2024)

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Episode 155: Sight-Words Are Killing Us. --- Wed., June 19, 2024

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Episode 154: "How did our institutes of higher learning turn into Marxist reeducation camps?” (Question on Quora.)

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Episode 153:: What your students need to know about Socialism. (Wed., June 5, 2024)

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Episode 152: Curriculum Planning, max speed (Wed., May 29, 2024)

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151: How Can We Motivate Underachieving Children Who Don't Want to Learn? (question on Quora; first answered on my Substack) Wed. May 22, 2024

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Episode 150: K-12 -- S.N.A.F.U. (Wed., May 15, 2024)

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Episode 149: YOU should be an education reformer. (Wed., May 8, 2024)

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Episode 148: Latin Lives On… and On (Wednesday, May 1, 2024)

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Episode 147: The Great Betrayal: Top Experts Make Millions by Promoting Worst Methods

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