Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price

Episode 196:  Education reformers agree: Sight-words are a con (Wed, April 2, 2025)Please note, this short piece runs a few seconds over 5 minutes, that's all. And then you will understand the Reading Wars, and all the nonsense of the last 100 years.(Urgent note: you might be better off reading this as TRANSCRIPT because I'm explaining the problems of sight-words by illustrating how similar most English words are to many other  English words. For example, a sight-word reader would see these words as hugely similar: light, tight, flight, height, mighty, sights, blight, bright, fight, nightly ...2nd urgent note: the Reading Wars started exactly 100 years ago and the Comintern  has been winning ever since. Please pass this episode to parents of young children.)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price******** LITERARY NEWS ********"The  Boy  Who  Saves  The  World"                (ebook and paper)         A Smart, Emotional Thriller-----------------------------------------------  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.Support the show

Episode 195: Wait. Can A Mere Boy Save The World?? (Wed, March 26,  2025)My new novel is titled The Boy Who Saves The World. Thoughtful people want to know, could such a thing actually happen??? Many experts speculate that robotics and AI can end up anywhere you can imagine.... as in this thriller.---------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price******** LITERARY NEWS ********"The  Boy  Who  Saves  The  World"                (ebook and paper)         A Smart, Emotional Thriller----------------------------------------------- Available in e-book for $7.77 and in paperback for $19.99Author’s website is lit4u.com (which presents nine novels and two nonfiction books about K-12 education).--------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 194: The 8000-pound Guerrilla in the Classroom?? Wed, March 19, 2025The Comintern was all about winning. An idea could be really quite nasty and barbarous. But if it would win, they did it.Promises changed. Lenin promised: “Land, bread, peace.” The peasants got none of that. Did you notice the casual way Kamala went from hating fracking to “Sure, I like fracking.”--------------------------------------------------------------------“I Led Three Lives” --  Give this episode 10 minutes and you'll understand what it is to be a spy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKxUD7ryxdE----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price******** LITERARY NEWS ********"The  Boy  Who  Saves  The  World"                (ebook and paper)         A Smart, Emotional Thriller-----------------------------------------------  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.Support the show

Episode 193, Big Picture Thinking -- Wed, March 12, 2025I want to celebrate the work of Linda Goudsmit. Her topic is understanding life in the 21st-century, the forces that are dragging it down, and how we can make it better.---------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price******** LITERARY NEWS ********"The  Boy  Who  Saves  The  World"                (ebook and paper)         A Smart, Emotional Thriller -------       -------      --------         ------         visit Lit4u.com   (book  # 7)------------------------------------------------------       When you need a smart gift,                  give Saving K-12 .------------------------------------------------------ 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.Support the show

GREAT DOUBLE ARTICLE: a quick look at why we must have phonics. And a quick look at the career of Sue Dickson, who invented one of the best phonics programs. All of this in five minutes.--------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*************LITERARY NEWS:"The Boy Who Saves The World"               now available in ebook and paperA Smart Thriller For Most Readers------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 191: How To Teach Philosophy Every Day (Wed, Feb 26, 2025)Epoque Times, a great newspaper, presents a daily feature: great quotes from great minds.So you know that, quickly and cheaply, all schools can teach philosophy all day long. Use Epoque Times or create your own feature.---------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*****************LITERARY NEWS:"The Boy Who Saves The World"                (ebook and paper)A Smart Thriller For Most Readers-------       -------      --------         ------  visit my lit site: Lit4.com   ( book  # 7  )------------------------------------------------------ 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.Support the show

Episode 190:   No more Department of Education?? Wonderful idea!! A silly question on the Internet: If the Department of Education is dismantled, then how are kids going to receive their education?No, the Department of Education is the repository of bad ideas and bad ambitions. Get rid of it and let more mainstream people take control of K-12.----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*************LITERARY NEWS:"The Boy Who Saves The World"               now available in ebook and paperA Smart Thriller For Most Readers------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 189: Government Tests Confirm Decline  Episode 189: Government Tests Confirm Decline  -- Wed, Feb. 12, 2025 (but late)(First let me mention this is the first deadline I missed in three years; my email provider stopped doing its job for two or three days.)Main news: EducationNext.org reports that we have been mired in shrinking academic outcomes for more than a decade,. And everything.continues to get worse.“We’ve always had an achievement gap. It was getting worse prior to the pandemic. Since 2019, it has exploded and we can’t tell yet if it’s done growing.”------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*************LITERARY NEWS:"The Boy Who Saves The World"   now available in ebook and paperA Smart Thriller For Most ReadersSmall graphic is the cover.-------          -------           --------         ------  visit my lit site: Lit4.com   ( book  # 7  )------------------------------------------------------ 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.Support the show

Many pundits have noticed that American students almost never learn a second language. This is a tragic loss.What's the reason?---------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------LITERARY NEWS:"The Boy Who Saves The World"   now available in ebook and paperA Thriller For Intellectuals-------          -------           --------         ------  visit my lit site: Lit4.com   ( book  # 7  )----------------------------------------------------------------------------PHONICS ALPHABET  --  where you starthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVeP6JISfyw------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 187: There’s no Mental like Experimental  (Wed, Jan. 29, 2025)In general, the public schools are more dull than ever, and much too devoid of substance. So look for antidote and remedies that make students try new approaches. All those things could be called experimental and that's what this article is about.------------------------------------------------------------------MAX your c*r*e*a*t*i*v*i*t*ylinks to articles about creativityhttps://www.creativity-portal.com/bc/bruce.price/---------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------soonLITERARY NEWS:The Boy Who Saves The Worldnow available in ebook and paperA Thriller For Intellectuals---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 186: What Do American Kids Learn In Grade One?  (Quora question)   Wed, Jan 22, 2025------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We need more learning starting in kindergarten. And a lot less blah-blah-blah.The essence of the problem, the essence of the solution, all in 5-minute podcast.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------         as mentioned in podcast:50 YOUTUBE VIDEOS EXPLAIN WHERE K-12 WENT WRONG ---------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 185: Bullying! Cheating! Phones in class!... Everybody complains.... Nobody has answers. (Wed., Jan. 15, 2025)The Education Establishment likes to whine. You may think they are expressing a love of improvement. No, they are reinforcing an endless capacity for decline. All the big shots whine, and the public lets them get away with murder, so to speak.---------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. >>>Don't hesitate to read episodes at random.Everything on this podcast is up to datebecause educrats cleverly stifle improvement. That's the tragedy we need to fix.Subscribe / Support the show 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.Support the show

Episode 184:  Why American Public Schools Can’t Teach Children To Read? The Secret Story  (Wed, Jan 8, 2025)It was a deal signed in blood, or if not in blood, then in IQ points. Keeping  Sight-Words in play was a dirty trick on all the average students who were reduced a notch or three.Frank Smith produced the sophistry required to keep nonsense in play.There is a double penalty because learning to read with phonics actually raises intelligence, according to many researchers.--------------------video: READING IS EASY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JV0tPGn-Ws---------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. >>>Don't hesitate to read episodes at random.Everything on this podcast is up to datebecause educrats cleverly stifle improvement. That's the tragedy we need to fix.Subscribe / Support the show 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.Support the show

Episode 183: Celebrate the New Year with my Most Popular PodcastWed., Jan. 1, 2025--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Let's Fix Education has been going strong for more than three years, and during all that time one episode was far and away the crowd favorite by a factor of 100.Episode 86: Super Bowl LVII, the National Anthem, Chris Stapleton: RESPECT offered some of the most popular things in American culture, the Super Bowl, a famous country star singing the Star-Spangled Banner at halftime, and a general hurrah for patriotism. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/1792553/episodes/12293947-episode-86-super-bowl-lvii-the-national-anthem-chris-stapleton-respect-wed-feb-22-2023]The episode also had three outstanding links. There's a link to Stapleton’s performance, which is outstanding. There's a second link to a guy who is obviously a music director and he mentions technical details that I thought many people would appreciate. The third link tells the great story about the War of 1812 and the creation of our national anthem, narrated by Ronald Reagan.So you have a great array of valuable information with the secret message, hey, if our schools were doing a good job, you would already know all this stuff, but my bet is that most people do not.I got so many views because people passed the link around, which is essential for a niche site like this. Let's Fix Education is for people who care about the schools and understand some of the battles raging since the 1950s: the reading wars, the math wars, the cultural literacy wars, and the pervasive loss of substance and seriousness throughout K-12.  The extraordinary thing is that the schools have been kept stagnant. Nothing improves. All the articles and podcasts I've written in the last 35 years would be just as fresh today. So don't hesitate to scan the titles and then dip in anywhere that sounds interesting.I especially hope you pass the podcast to parents with young children. They need to understand what's being done in the schools. If anyone wants to publish or quote anything I've written, be my guest.———————————————————————--------------------------------Meanwhile, Trump has promised to abolish the Department of Education, which sounds like a fine idea to me. This will open things up so that mainstream people in each state can start taking back the schools from extremists.————————————————————————-----------------------------Meanwhile, I've been adding to my literary site, Lit4u.com, which now features eight novels in several popular genre and a unique long poem titled Theoryland. More titles in 2025. (www.Lit4u.com)—————————————————————————-—---------------------—Meanwhile, if you want to support my campaign for better schools, that's easy to do at SUPPORT EDUCATION REFORM.http://spot.fund/SupportEducationReform————————————————————————----------------------———-                                                    MERRY EVERYTHING--------------------------------------------------------------------------========================================Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .---------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 182: How To Teach More  (Wed, Dec 25, 2024For our Education Establishment an exciting new wrinkle would be 20 ways to practice collaboration. Their gift must be called what it is, sleep-inducing.With just a bit of creativity and exploiting the information available to anyone, you can make memorable classroom instruction.Magicians these days are coming up with new ways to entertain an audience. Copy that.(For inspiration, reflect on Shin Limhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTJbWylt4-A )(Acknowledging typo: “...students have all the answers hidden away…"should be “....teachers have all the answers hidden away.”)========================================Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. >>>Don't hesitate to read episodes at random.Everything on this podcast is up to datebecause educrats cleverly stifle improvement. That's the tragedy we need to fix.Subscribe / Support the showLowest sub is $3/mo, set by Buzzsprout,I don't know why. Consider featuring Let's Fix Education in your podcast, blog, or site. 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.Support the show

Episode 181: My Italy Speech Revisited  (Wed, Dec. 18, 2024)————————------------------------------------------------------------—Italian is said to be the most beautiful language, the most phonetic language. Unfortunately, their Education Establishment was like ours and wanted to replace beauty with sight-words.A reform group invited me over to give a speech. It's a quick summary of what the Reading Wars were about. I say the whole thing is a con. You have to give it to these meddlers, they know how to take down a country.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The contents page from Saving K-12 shows clearly the kind of themes that I enjoy analyzing:INTRODUCTION          1. CULTURE WARSSomebody does not like our culture          2. READING WARSWhy we have 50,000,000 functional illiterates          3. MATH WARSStudents reach college not knowing what 7 x 8 is          4. HISTORICALLY SPEAKING100 years of dumbing down           5. THEORIES AND METHODS IN THECLASSROOMEvery fad turns out to be a foolish idea          6. COMMON CORE ENSHRINES THE WORSTThat's how you know they aren't sincere          7. LITERARY FLIGHTSWho says serious has to be boring          8. GUILTYAre they merely clumsy or carefully aiming for mediocrity          9. MOVERS AND SHAKERSWe need our big shots to move and shake more than they do          10. WHAT TO DOSuggestions for repairing the damage------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. >>>Don't hesitate to read episodes at random.Everything on this podcast is up to datebecause educrats cleverly stifle improvement. That's the tragedy we need to fix.Subscribe / Support the showLowest sub is $3/mo, set by Buzzsprout,I don't know why. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------W   H   A   T      T   O       E   X   P   E   C   T 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.Support the show

Episode 180:    The Unrelenting Attack On Reading  (Wed., Dec. 11, 2024)Starting in kindergarten, children need to read, and they need to learn basic information. Our public schools are designed to stymie BOTH goals.People with children in school have got to pay more attention. The child’s cognitive and intellectual life might be stunted.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. >>>Don't hesitate to read episodes at random.Everything on this podcast is up to datebecause educrats cleverly stifle improvement. That's the tragedy we need to fix.Subscribe / Support the showLowest sub is $3/mo, set by Buzzsprout,I don't know why. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 179:  Religion versus Science: where’s that go?  (Wed., Dec. 4, 2024)Science or Religion, which do you prefer? Another question is, which do you hope is true?My main generalization about the universe is that it's insanely chaotic and mysterious. Science and Religion are two ways of grappling with the chaos and mystery. I recommend both.Historically speaking, Science and Religion trade places when it comes to supremacy. One is all-powerful and then the other takes over. Theories seem to explain everything until they are kicked out on the street.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------MYSTERY OF THE SHROUD ( https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/new-findings-reinforce-the-authenticity-debate-of-the-turin-shroud#google_vignette )MYSTERY OF DARK ENERGY  ( https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dark-energy-the-biggest-mystery-in-the-universe-9482130/ ))------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. >>>Don't hesitate to read episodes at random.Everything on this podcast is up to datebecause educrats cleverly stifle improvement. That's the tragedy we need to fix.Subscribe / Support the showLowest sub is $3/mo, set by Buzzsprout,I don't know why. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Big Pharma and Big Ed have a lot in common. Chicanery. Shenanigans. Blatant corruption. Lots of gullible victims. IMHO.There seem to be people at the top of both industries who lack the gene for shame. Anything they can get away with, they are all in. Time for the public to realize what the game is they're playing. On street corners it's called Three Card Monty. Many variations, one finale. The sucker always loses.Point is, people have learned to distrust Big Pharma. Now they should learn to distrust Big Ed because Big Ed definitely does not deserve your trust.----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. >>>Don't hesitate to read episodes at random.Everything on this podcast is up to datebecause educrats cleverly stifle improvement. That's the tragedy we need to fix.Subscribe / Support the showLowest sub is $3/mo, set by Buzzsprout,I don't know why.  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.Support the show

Episode 177: The Scariest Shift Is The Growing Indifference To TRUTH.  Wed., Nov. 20, 2024  Trump wants to get rid of the Department of Education. Here’s why that is good!Our professors of education are like a vast tumor growing over American culture. They skillfully encourage dumbing down. They must believe they are stronger if the people are weak. Isn't that a shameful thought?So let's return power to the states, and everybody stand by for opportunities to make their schools better. Happy days.----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. >>>Don't hesitate to read episodes at random. Everything on this podcast is up to date because educrats cleverly stifle improvement. That's the tragedy we need to fix.Subscribe / Support the showLowest sub is $3/mo, set by Buzzsprout,I don't know why.  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.Support the show

Episode 176: The Goal Is  Not The Goal   (Wed., Nov. 13, 2024)There is a lot of bait and switch throughout K-12, in all subjects. The professors promise you’ll be educated, but instead they make you learn minor stuff, irrelevant stuff. The crucial stuff is forgotten.----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer.  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.Support the show

Episode 175: Millions of Children Suffer from Schoolitis   Here is a dirty little secret. Experts create  clouds of confusion around our schools. Parents do not know what's going on in the schools. Or whether anything good is happening.Here are some tips for evaluating the damage----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. 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. 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.Support the show

Episode 174, The Education Enigma      --     Wed., Oct. 30, 2024What is THE EDUCATION ENIGMA?USA spends more money per capita than any other country, but we have the worst schools. And the least educated students. How do you explain this to yourself?This paradox I have named The Education Enigma.Everything is unbelievably shoddy and low-level, except the cost.A cool, calculating observer might even conclude that the people in charge don't know what they're doing. Or they don't want to do what they should be doing.----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer.  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.Support the show

Memo to students. Are you looking for good topics to research and write about?  I have been studying education for many years. I've published a lot of material that you will find useful.So much of the writing within the field of education is shallow, useless, and boring. Typically, professors try to protect methods that should never have been embraced in the first place.-----I have a podcast with 170+ episodes. You can scan the titles quickly. ------And I have 70 graphic videos on YouTube. Short, lively, and dare I say it, fun.----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of his literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Like a good mystery?? "Frankie" is a unique WHODUNIT.Or visit "Frankie" article on X:https://x.com/educatt/status/1842384658253672518----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 172:  Trump threatens to cancel Department of Education. Is this Good? Bad? Or merely a premise for Comedy?  (Wed., Oct. 16, 2024)K-12 is not a serious place. It’s an endless array of goofy ideas that should never be used.Basically, that's why Trump wants to eliminate the Department of Education. Personally, I support anything that puts pressure on these dangerous ideologues. The Babylon Bee sees comedy in the pretentious nonsense, and so should we all.----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of his literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Like a good mystery?? "Frankie" is a unique WHODUNIT.Or visit "Frankie" article on X:https://x.com/educatt/status/1842384658253672518----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 171: Why Kids Need Multiplication Tables (Wed., October 9, 2024)What is the one method that every student knows is essential for middle and upper level math. It's a list of shortcuts that we call the multiplication tables. What is 6 by 4?  If you don't know, you have to start over again on every question. You have to put little dots on the page, or count on your fingers and toes. Remember how the schools made fun of that. Now it's required.So, should kids memorize times tables? “Stanford University’s Jo Boaler says teachers and parents should stop drilling kids in addition and multiplication.…But wait — doesn’t everyone have to learn times tables?”  No, says Boaler, evidently a dangerous brit.CODA: Here’s what I've noticed. Every array of ceiling tiles, or linoleum tiles on the floor, contain the multiplication tables. Students can see for themselves that 3 by 4 is the same as 4 x 3. Yeah, it's 12 squares either way. So there is a prompt in plain sight for millions of students. Instead of finding easier ways to do things, the Education Establishment emphasizes difficulty so they will have excuses for reducing content.----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of his literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Like a good mystery?? "Frankie" is a unique WHODUNITOr visit "Frankie" article on X:https://x.com/educatt/status/1842384658253672518----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 170: Critical thinking about why do zebras have stripes? (Wed., Oct. 2, 2024)Ed professors play a dangerous game, keeping students ignorant, while pretending that somehow they are being educated.No matter what people are discussing, you need a little basic information on that topic to join the discussion.Did you know that science has not explained why zebras have such contrasty stripes. To discuss this, you need background information. Everything in our public schools is like children going to their first cricket game and nobody tells them what the whole thing is about.----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Like a good mystery?? "Frankie" is a unique WHODUNIT.------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 169: Make sure your child is reading in first grade. (Wed., Sept.25, 2024)--K-12 is polluted by bad reading theories. They are killing the country. And if you let them, they will cripple your kid.Maybe you think the education professors are nice guys lost in the woods, that's why they prefer bad theories. No, it's not possible. The arguments and counter-arguments are too well-known. Sight-words rarely work. Phonics has always worked. Give the gift of phonics.----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Like a good mystery?? "Frankie" is a unique whodunit.----------------------------------------------------------------------------———————————————————— 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.Support the show

Episode 168: Back To School: Don’t Let Children Be Culturally Illiterate  (Wed., Sept. 18, 2024)All of education depends on starting small and building on that foundation. Our public schools have gutted the early stages where you learn the basics, also known as cultural literacy.Demand that children learn more facts and knowledge from kindergarten onward. ----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of howeveryone can help fix education,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.)COMING SOON: "THE BOY WHO SAVES THE WORLD"-------------------------------------------------———————————————————— 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.Support the show

Our country is dumber each year because less and less knowledge is taught in the classroom. Don't accept this incompetence, or what I would call it, malevolence.Episode 167 offers ideas for making our schools more efficient, and our students more intelligent.----------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.)COMING SOON: "THE BOY WHO SAVES THE WORLD"-------------------------------------------------————————————————————Everybody should see the 333 Latin-English list. First published in 1985 in the Princeton Alumni Weekly; and further discussed by Princeton’s Salutatorian in 2019:   https://paw.princeton.edu/article/latin-and-latin-salutatory-lives=================================================== 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.Support the show

Episode 166:  Back to school: Modern History Elevated by Iron and Steel   Wed., Sept. 4, 2024SUMMARY: A look at the central ingredient of modern times, namely, the SKYSCRAPER. When did it appear and how and why?————————————————————————————————————————————————————POSTSCRIPT:  as urgent as everReading is the most important thing. Our public schools are doing a criminally bad job. Don't accept it.Please see Episode 164. Learn why many experts believe that  "Reading Is Easy.”=======================================--------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help reform…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what everyone can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.)NOW IN E-BOOK: "THE BOY WHO SAVES THE WORLD"------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 165: Back to school:  Jump into science, e.g., electricity   (Wed.  Aug. 28, 2024)Start small. Teach the littlest amount of information possible. Over time you can give children the fundamental information they need.Kids are sometimes given no preliminary instruction and then expected to grasp sophisticated phenomena. Won’t happen without a struggle. Teach them the most basic stuff before you start.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help my reform work…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what everyone can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.)COMING SOON: "THE BOY WHO SAVES THE WORLD"------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 164  Back To School: Make Reading #1 Priority   (Wed.,August 21, 2024) Super-condensed explanation of why the schools can’t teach reading. This is the single most important flaw in American culture. Don't take it anymore.The podcast is interrupted in the middle so you can watch a video called READING IS EASY. Only three minutes. If you don't get everything then watch the podcast over and over and listen to the video over and over. You will get it all. READING IS EASY (3-MINUTE VIDEO)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JV0tPGn-Ws&t=168s(It’s probably better to read the transcript.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help my reform work…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what everyone can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.)COMING SOON: "THE BOY WHO SAVES THE WORLD"------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 163:  More Good Ideas For Going Back to SchoolWed., August 14, 2024----------------------------Let's reclaim the classrooms and fill them with joyful learning.To understand why the schools are so bad, you have to understand that the professors in charge do not care about intellectual or academic content. Sorry, that's the tough reality. Let's turn it around by teaching content every chance you get.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------PRECISION:  One of the world’s great drum corps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7jsVsUNWsM------------------------------------------------------------------------NO PRECISION: "Constructivism is a Big Fat Con"https://www.nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Essays/v13n1.htm-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help my reform work…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what everyone can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.)COMING SOON: "THE BOY WHO SAVES THE WORLD"------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 162;  Exploring through Typography    Wed., Aug., 7, 2024 BACK TO SCHOOL with better ways to do everything.For example, use graphics and type design to teach reading, aesthetic judgment, marketing, in short, all the things that a savvy adult should know.---------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help reform work…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what everyone can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. For a list of literary titles, visit:::::   Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.(THE BOY WHO SAVES THE WORLD is now an ebook )https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-boy-who-saves-the-world-------------------------    ---------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 61: Schools more violent!! Experts pretend to be baffled??  Wed., July 31, 2024If sight-words and constructivism, didn't work 50 years ago, why do you think they'll work today?The schools are full of goofy ideas. Think of them as ticks on a dog, pluck them off and burn them.Episode 161 explains why the Education Establishment is so unhelpful---------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help my reform work…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what everyone can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.)-------------------------    ---------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 160: How Ideological Hacks Ruin The Schools  (Wed., July 24, 2024)Don't let the blizzard of lies confuse you. It's the same pattern over and over. They try to take you off your game. So they can order you around and make you behave the way they want.The answers themselves are just garbage. That's the thing to keep in mind.---------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Breitbart explores Lukacs and Ganghttps://www.breitbart.com/europe/2015/02/04/for-the-first-time-in-history-conservatives-are-at-the-forefront-of-the-cultural-revolution/Graphic shows Lukacs in 1919. Is it my imagination or does he look evil?I ask the same question about Soros.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help my reform work…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what everyone can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.)-------------------------    ------------------------------ 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.Support the show

Episode 159: What About the Attempted Assassination of American Children?Wed., July 17, 2024--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Really hyper ingenious conspiracy. Or just weird dumb luck. I'm talking about the Trump assassination. I'm also talking about the weird ways they teach reading in our schools. Strangely enough, the two things are parallel.The official story about what happened in Butler is not to be believed. The fiendish evil plot against children is also not to be believed or at least accepted as human. So there you have it, two parallel universes.Note 2 excellent videos are included:.K-12; Sight-Words Are A Sick Jokehttps://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/10/k12_sightwords_are_a_sick_joke.htmlHow Sight-Words Cause Dyslexiahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZSFdCuHG9E=========---------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help my work…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what everyone can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.)-------------------------    ------------------------------ 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.Support the show

Episode 158: Public Schools gone to hell?? Who you gonna call??Wed., July 10, 2024 Basically all education, in all times and places, can be described as incremental mastery. You learn a little today and then a little more tomorrow and then still a little more the next day. Just as if you want to build a high brick wall, you start with one row of bricks.Nowadays, the normal instinctive way to do things is avoided. Somehow the kids are led through the backyard and down the street and around through the garage. Yes, they're confused. That seems to be the essence of how you keep children ignorant, and slow.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help my work…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what everyone can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.)-------------------------    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 157: why do Public Schools hate Geography?  (Wed., July 3rd, 2024)There are no good ideas in our public schools, only garbage expressed in protective sauce.Instead of telling you how to reach your destination, the schools will lay out a program of scuba diving, mah Jong, and fashion tips. You won't get to where you wanted to go. After a while, you won't remember you wanted to go anywhere. A good illustration of this pessimistic view is the triumphant non-teaching of geography in order to promote the criminal non-teaching of history.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT,.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help my work…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what everyone can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.)------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 156: The Waste of Systemic Ignorance   (Wed., June 26, 2024)The situation is simple. The professional educators, as they deceptively call themselves, don't believe in education. They like ignorance.Learn, baby, learn. That should be the chant and the cheer of all educated people.Good School, Bad School.How to tell the difference-- see short video--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to podcast or read transcript.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help my work…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what everyone can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Reality One, we have to get rid of sight-words, so that literacy will have a chance. Reality Two requires explaining the subject to lots of people. That's done most easily, according to author Linda Goudsmit, with the following one-page method.This explanation requires navigating the chaos of print, like what a child has to deal with. It's better to go directly to  TRANSCRIPT.——————-----------------------------------------------------Linda Goudsmit’s current book is Humanitarian Hoaxes. She writes insightfully about the entire range of liberal panaceas that are doing so much to harm us. https://www.amazon.com/Book-Humanitarian-Hoaxes-Killing-Kindness/dp/098354252XSpace Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is (forthcoming release July, 2024)——————---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Reading Is Easy, a four-minute video, tells you why the experts think phonics is the only way to go. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help my work…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what everyone can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a description of 9 literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 154      -     Wednesday, June 12, 2024"‘How did our institutes of higher learning turn into Marxist reeducation camps?” (Question on Quora.)-----A pivotal question which every American should try to answer. Here's my short answer: a vast army of saboteurs has been working in the shadows for more than a century. Here is the chronology, starting in 1883. Marx died. Many people though he was a super-genius, although much of his thinking was garbled. But he was persuasive, and many people have spent their lives trying to make his visions come true.------Listen to podcast or read transcript.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help my work…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what everyone can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 153:: What your students need to know about Socialism.  (Wed., June 5, 2024)Perfect short summary of Socialism and Communism, 5 minutes, for all classesAmerican schools are full of covert Communists and Socialists. They pretend to explain things in long convoluted ways that don't explain very much. Socialism can be a life-and-death choice. So everyone needs to be informed-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Podcasts are presented as Voice and Print  (i.e., PODCAST or TRANSCRIPT)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what we can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.comUnder construction but worth a look.)-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Photo montage from Alamy. -------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 152:  Curriculum Planning, max speed   (Wed., May 29, 2024)Stop teaching nothing all day.  Teach all the wonderful things children need to know and want to know. Not to mention, you'll have more fun. Here are about 50 ideas  you can use this year. Deliberate Dumbing Down is not an ethical approach. Nor is keeping children in a vacuum so they never grow up.Smart Content Makes Kids Smarterhttp://www.improve-education.org/id88.html---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Podcasts are presented as both voice and print  (i.e., TRANSCRIPT)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help my work…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what everyone can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 151: How Can We Motivate Underachieving Children Who Don't Want to Learn? (question on Quora; first answered on my Substack)Wed.,  May 22, 2024NB: the public schools are probably much worse than you suspect. But people don't want to deal with that information, so the Education Establishment gets away with doing a lousy job. I'm trying to persuade everybody to be more judgmental, more demanding, more of a catalyst.——--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Relevant article: K-12: In Praise of WOW! Joan Dunn’s book Retreat from Learning is available in Archive.org-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Podcasts are presented as voice and print  (i.e., TRANSCRIPT)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what we can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Under construction but worth a look.)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 150:   K-12 --  S.N.A.F.U.  (Wed., May 15, 2024)---Welcome to K-12 where education goes to die.Come on, people, get involved. Kids are dumbed down every day. There's no excuse for it.Every sane idea has been sabotaged and sent into exile.  Now we see nothing but counterproductive ideas. Naturally, we have epidemics of illiteracy and ignorance.(S.N.A.F.U. is military slang for Situation Normal -- All Fouled Up.)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Podcasts are presented as voice and print  (i.e., TRANSCRIPT)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what we can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Still under construction but worth a look.)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 149: YOU should be an education reformer.  (Wed., May 8, 2024) Join the good guys, against the duplicitous professors of education who have devised so much sneaky nonsense. I've been calling K-12 a crime scene for 20 years. This is a very liberating notion. Education is a bad part of town. Adults will be robbed, children will be stunted.QED: you should get involved with improving K-12.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SIX STEPS TO REFORM  (good article)Mark Dice wants to know how many stars are on the flag?   (Video.)-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Podcasts are presented as voice and print  (i.e., TRANSCRIPT)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what we can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Still under construction but worth a look.)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 148:    Latin Lives On… and OnWednesday, May 1, 2024------------Latin Lives On:  333 common words letter for letter identical in Latin and English. Each word is a mnemonic device providing extra texture, extra connections.My list illustrates a general principle: there's always a better, quicker, cheaper way to teach a lot. The Education Establishment should focus on this. Instead of retreating from knowledge, the professors should embrace knowledge with greater cleverness.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Podcasts are presented as voice and print  (i.e., TRANSCRIPT)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what we can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Still under construction but worth a look.)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show

Episode 147: The Great Betrayal: Top Experts Make Millions by Promoting Worst Methods  (Wed, April 24, 2024)——————————————————————First published as “42: Who Ruined Reading” on Improve-Education.org. Site is now unavailable due to incompetence of hosting company. I’m working on recovery. Our Education Establishment is also incompetent. We have 50 million functional illiterates. Please stop putting up with this. Take a little time to understand the Great Reading Heist. Read “the Meaning of the Lucy Calkins fiasco.”-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Non-phonics instruction leads to poor reading, anxiety, ADHD, reliance on Ritalin, etc. There is no good reason for teaching with sight-words, except that “experts” insist.Phonics expert say children typically learn to read in first grade. Requiring children to learn sight-words is typically asking the impossible.Few humans can memorize even 100 license plates. Why would anyone think that ordinary children can memorize thousands of sight-words?----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Podcasts are presented as voice and print  (i.e., TRANSCRIPT)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help K-12…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what we can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Still under construction but worth a look.)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.Support the show