All Episodes
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price — 196 episodes
Episode 196: Education reformers agree: Sight-words are a con (Wed, April 2, 2025)
Episode 195: Wait. Can A Mere Boy Save The World?? (Wed, March 26, 2025)
Episode 194: The 8000-pound Guerrilla in the Classroom?? (Wed, March 19, 2025)
Episode 193, Big Picture Thinking: Wed, March 12, 2025
Episode 192: "Why are underperforming schools in American urban neighborhoods difficult to turn around?" (Quora Question) Wed, March 5, 2025
Episode 191: How To Teach Philosophy Every Day (Wed, Feb 26, 2025)
Episode 190: No more Department of Education?? Wonderful idea!! (Wed, Feb 19, 2025)
Episode 189: Government Tests Confirm Decline (Wed, Feb. 12, 2025 (but late)
Episode 188: What IsThe Right Amount Of Linguistic Education For American Students? Wed, Feb 5, 2025
Episode 187: There’s no Mental like Experimental (Wed, Jan. 29, 2025)
Episode 186: What Do American Kids Learn In Grade One? (Quora question) Wed, Jan 22, 2025
Episode 185: Bullying! Cheating! Phones in class!... Everybody complains.... Nobody has answers.
Episode 184: Why American Public Schools Can’t Teach Children To Read? The Secret Story
Episode 183: Celebrate the New Year with my Most Popular Podcast (Wed., Jan. 1, 2025)
Episode 182: How To Teach More (Wed, Dec 25, 2024)
Episode 181: My Italy Speech Revisited (Wed, Dec. 18, 2024)
Episode 180: The Unrelenting Attack On Reading (Wed., Dec. 11, 2024)
Episode 179: Religion versus Science: where’s that go? (Wed., Dec. 4, 2024)
Episode 178: Big Pharma, Big Ed, and the Fauci Falsie (Wed., Nov. 27, 2024)
Episode 177: The Scariest Shift Is The Growing Indifference To TRUTH. Wed., Nov. 20, 2024
Episode 176: The Goal Is Not The Goal (Wed., Nov. 13, 2024)
Episode 175: Millions of Children Suffer from Schoolitis Wed., Nov. 6, 2024
Episode 174, What is The Education Enigma? Wed., Oct. 30, 2024
Episode 173: What Are Best Education Topics To Study In Grad School (Wed., Oct. 23, 2024)
Episode 172: Trump threatens to cancel Department of Education. Is this Good? Bad? Or merely a premise for Comedy?
Episode 171: Why Kids Need Multiplication Tables (Wed., October 9, 2024)
Episode 170: Critical thinking about why do zebras have stripes? (Wed., Oct. 2, 2024)
Episode 169: Make sure your child is reading in first grade. (Wed., Sept.25, 2024)
Episode 168: Back To School: Don’t Let Children Be Culturally Illiterate (Wed., Sept. 18, 2024)
Episode 167: Back to School: Make Your Students Smarter Faster (Wed., Sept. 11, 2024)
Episode 166: Back to school: Modern History Elevated by Iron and Steel
Episode 165: Back to school: Jump into science, e.g., electricity
Episode 164: Back To School: Make Reading #1 Priority (Wed.,August 21, 2024)
Episode 163: More Good Ideas For Going Back to School
Episode 162; Exploring through Typography Wed., Aug., 7, 2024
Episode 161: Schools more violent!! Experts pretend to be baffled?? Wed., July 31, 2024
Episode 160: How Ideological Hacks Ruin The Schools (Wed., July 24, 2024)
Episode 159: What About the Attempted "Assassination" of American Children? ( Wed., July 17, 2024)
Episode 158: Public Schools gone to hell?? Who you gonna call??
Episode 157: Why do Public Schools hate Geography?? (Wed., July 3rd, 2024)
Episode 156: The Waste of Systemic Ignorance (Wed., June 26, 2024)
Episode 155: Sight-Words Are Killing Us. --- Wed., June 19, 2024
Episode 154: "How did our institutes of higher learning turn into Marxist reeducation camps?” (Question on Quora.)
Episode 153:: What your students need to know about Socialism. (Wed., June 5, 2024)
Episode 152: Curriculum Planning, max speed (Wed., May 29, 2024)
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
Episode 150: K-12 -- S.N.A.F.U. (Wed., May 15, 2024)
Episode 149: YOU should be an education reformer. (Wed., May 8, 2024)
Episode 148: Latin Lives On… and On (Wednesday, May 1, 2024)
Episode 147: The Great Betrayal: Top Experts Make Millions by Promoting Worst Methods
Episode 146: K-12 Boycott: Are You Ready? (Wed., April 17, 2024)
Episode 145: Survey Courses? Yes, We Desperately Need Them. (Wed. April 10, 2024)
144: Best Practice: Teach Items In Clusters (Wed., April 3, 2024)
Episode 143: 70 Years Ago, Schools Were Already Sabotaged (Wed., March 27, 2024)
Episode 142 - Can Anyone Read? (Wed., March 20, 2024)
K-12: Nothing Taught. Nothing Learned. (Episode 141: Wed., March 13, 2024)
Episode 140: The Legacy of Rita Kramer and the Embarrassment Factor (Wed., March 6, 2024)
Episode 139: You can’t handle the Truth about K-12 (Wed., Feb. 28, 2024)
Episode 138: Traditional Education is what we need now (Wed., Feb. 21, 2024)
Episode 137: Enjoy Real Education (Wed., February 14, 2024)
Episode 136: The K-12 Gulag (Wed., Feb. 7, 2024)
Episode 135: Educational Wastelands (Wed., Jan. 31, 2024)
Episode 134: Freedom is the issue. (Wed., January 24, 2024)
Episode 133: Don't Be Their Accomplice (Wed., Jan. 17, 2024)
Episode 132: The One Book About Education Everyone Should Read (Wed. Jan. 10, 2024)
Episode 131: Please! Can we stop the dyslexia nonsense? (Wed., Jan. 3, 2024)
Episode 130: Research reveals how K-12 was intentionally sabotaged (Wed., Dec. 27, '23)
Episode 129: Why Education “Experts” Hate Cursive (Wed., Dec. 20, 2023)
Episode 128: Don’t Engage in Child Abuse (Wed., Dec., 13, 2023)
Episode 127: How far do we let the schools fall?? (Wed. , Dec. 6, 2023)
Episode 126: The War Against Truth (Part 1) (Nov. 29, 2023)
Episode 125: 10 Worst Ideas in Education (Wed., Nov. 22, '23)
Episode 124: Resistance or Death (Wed., November 15, 2023)
Episode 123: Sight-words are a con?? Of course. (Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2023)
Episode 122: Good school?? Bad school?? It's so obvious! (November 1, 2023)
Episode 121: Two Great Books For Smart People (Wed., Oct. 25, 2023)
Episode 120: Support Education Reform — a true story (Wed., October 18, 2023)
Episode 119: Schools are dramatically more violent. Why??? (Wed., Oct. 11, 2023)
Episode 118: Reading Rescued! Thanks to Lucy Calkins (Oct. 4, 2023)
Episode 117: Think piece: WHY AND HOW ELITE EDUCATORS DESTROY EDUCATION
Episode 116: Tens of millions of Americans can barely read. Everyone should know why. Wed., Sept. 20, 2023
Episode 115: Great News about John Saxon and his Marvelous Math Books
Episode 114: Support Education Reform Wednesday, Sept 6, 2023
Episode 113: America Urgently Needs Better Public Schools (Wed., August 30, 2023)
Episode 112: School Alert #1: Don’t Accept Lies About Reading. Here's The Truth.
Episode 111: Response on Twitter: “THIS IS ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL AND BRILLIANT.” Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Episode 110: What is STEM? Something the Department of Education loves to talk about while making sure nobody can do it.
Episode 109: Nine reasons why our public schools are so hard to rescue (Wed., August 2, 2023)
Episode 108: Teach philosophy in K-12?? Yes, definitely! For example… (Wed., July 26, 2023)
Episode 107: Top 10 Worst Ideas in K-12 (Wednesday, July 19, 2023)
Episode 106: Reading is under attack in our public schools (Wed., June 12, 2023)
Episode 105: Teachers: maybe it's time to dump the bad theories that hold children down (Wed., July 5, 2023)
Episode 104: What teachers can learn about teaching from Reaction Videos (Wed., June 28, 2023)
Episode 103: The most obvious conspiracy in the history of the world. (June 21, 2023)
Episode 102: A Best Way To Teach Everything (Wednesday, June 14, 2023)
Episode 101: Can you stand the truth about Mutant Math? (Wednesday, June 7, 2023}
Episode 100: Killing K-12 or Saving K-12??? (May 31, 2023)
Episode 99: The most brutal satire in American literature (Wed., May 24, 2023)
Episode 98: "Every scientist must believe in God.” Mark Liu (Wed., May17, 2023)
Episode 97: "Parents don't realize the Soviet level of indoctrination that their children are receiving.” Elon Musk
Episode 96: Interview With A Reading Coach (Wednesday, May 3, 2023)
Episode 95: Waiting for Lewis Black (Wed., April 26, 2023)
Episode 94: K-12: Devoted to Dysfunction (Wed., April 19, 2023)
Episode 93: Listen To Me, You Rich Successful People In Your Mansions (Wed., April 12, 2023)
Episode 92: Have you, Professors, at long last, no sense of decency? (Wed., April 5, 2023)
Episode 91: Education Establishment declares war on rest of country: War of the Worlds (Wed., March 28, 3023
Episode 90: An Act of War: what the professors of education did to our schools (March 22, 2023)
Episode 89: Memo To Teachers and Parents: Return To Real Reading. (Wednesday, March 15, 2023)
Episode 88: Tough-Love Speech to Children about Education (Wednesday, March 8, 2023)
Episode 87: Can anyone in America do critical thinking? (Wed., March 1, 2023)
Episode 86: Super Bowl LVII, the National Anthem, Chris Stapleton: RESPECT (Wed., Feb., 22, 2023)
Episode 85: Weird Al vs. Professors-Run-Wild (Wed., Feb. 15, 2023)
Episode 84: Replace top educators. Fire the Education Establishment (Wed., Feb.8, 2023)
Episode 83: Our schools are being wrecked by Captains of Ignorance (Wed., February 1, 2023)
Episode 82: The Internet wants to know: What are Chinese schools doing that Americans should adopt? (Wed., January 25, 2023)
Episode 81: Teacher reveals how dysfunctional K-12 really is (Wed., Jan. 18, 2023)
Episode 80: George Carlin and The Truth about American Education (Wed., Jan. 11)
Episode 79: Critical Thinking — how to teach it to children (Wed., Jan. 4, 2023)
Episode 78: In 2023, Reasons to be Cheerful — ONE, TWO, THREE (Wed., Dec. 28, 2022)
Episode 77: What every teacher needs to know (Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022)
Episode 76: Dyslexia is a Fancy Word for Sabotage (Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Episode 75: Grammar Nazis Needed (Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022)
Episode 74: Good-old-boy comic knows more about teaching math than the professors do (Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022)
Episode 73: Best Gift For Smart People—Saving K-12 (Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022)
Episode 72: Systematic education is good (as we see in the field of music) Wednesday, Nov. 16,
Episode 71: Return to Basics ASAP (Wednesday, November 9, 2022)
Episode 70: Constructivism is claptrap (Wednesday. November 2, 2022)
Episode 69: Making sure schools remain mediocre (Wednesday, October 26, 2022)
Episode 68: They talk about resiliency; but they give us snowflakes (Wednesday, October 19, 2022)
Episode 67: American newspapers don't care about literacy (Wed., October 12, 2022)
Episode 66: Six Simple Steps to Save Public Education (Wednesday, October 5)
Episode 65: Commies and Lies seem to be a case of true love. (Wed., Sept., 28, 2022)
Episode 64: Why the public schools are so bad (Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022)
Episode 63: The Education Establishment considered as parasite (Wednesday, September 14, 2022)
Episode 62: Republicans and Conservatives must learn to fight (Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022)
Episode 61 : Six Trait Writing and other Hokeypokey (Wednesday, August 31, 2022)
Episode 60: Jettison Jargon (Wednesday, August 24, 2022)
Episode 59: Scoundrel Time for K-12 (Wednesday, August 17)
Episode 58: Marx and a Pretext for Crime (Wednesday, August 10, 2022)
Episode 57: The Big Lie About Elementary Reading (Wednesday, August 3, 2022)
Episode 56: Russians attack American K-12 (Wednesday, July 27, 2022)
Episode 55: What Is Not A Scam? (Wednesday, July 20, 2022)
Episode 54: Social Emotive Mumbo-Jumbo (Wednesday, July 13, 2022)
Episode 53: Taking the education out of education (Wednesday, July 6, 2022)
Episode 52: K-12 Education is a Betrayal (Wednesday. June 29, 2022)
Episode 51: The Deep Dark Secrets of Our Public Schools (Wednesday, 22, 2022)
Episode 50: Factoids and Airheads (Wednesday, June 15, 2022)
Episode 49: The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America (Wednesday, June 8, 2022)
Episode 48: Chronic problems in K-12 are easily explained (June 1, 2022)
Episode 47: Let's Roll Back the Anti-Reading Barbarians (Wednesday, May 25, 2022)
Episode 46: Best Way To Teach Critical Thinking (Wed., May 18, 2022)
Episode 45: Let's Look at the Broader Patterns (May 11, 2022)
Episode 44: Don't believe me. Trust your common sense. (Wednesday, May 4, 2022)
Episode 43: There are always better ways to teach everything. (April 27, 2022)
Episode 42: Please, people, stop being pushovers (April 20 2022)
Episode 41: K-12: Education: “Hello, dumbness, my old friend” (Wednesday, April 13, 2022)
Episode 40: Keep It Fast, Fool (Wednesday, April 6, 2022)
Episode 39: Priority One is Basic Knowledge (Wednesday, March 30, 2022)
Episode 38: Mutilating Math (March 23, 2022)
Episode 37: Constructivism is the answer to everything. Oh, really?! (Wed., March 16, 2022)
Episode 36: Do you care that public schools have been dumbed down? (March 9, 2022)
Episode 35: K-12, Hope and Hopelessness (March 1, 2022)
Episode 34: How schools get away with teaching next to nothing. (They lie.) Feb. 23, 2022
Episode 33: Why is school based on memorization? (Feb.16)
Episode 32: Education Elite are Imperialists and Colonialists (Feb. 9, 2022)
Episode 31: Why Don't Our Schools Know How To Teach Reading???? (Feb. 2, 2022)
Episode 30: How The Deep State Weakens Education in Order to Control the Country (Jan. 26, 2022)
Episode 29: Memo To Teachers: Please Come Back To Real Reading (Jan 19, 2022)
Episode 28: Why did Elon Musk say it's easier to land a person on Mars than to change the education system in America? (Jan. 12, 2022)
Episode 27: Cheating should be eliminated (Jan. 5, 2022)
Episode 26: Normal people don't want absolute power (Dec. 22, 2021)
Episode 25: The Case Against Whole Word (Dec. 15, 2021)
Episode 24: Communism Is For Haters (Dec. 8, 2021)
Episode 23: American Business—and Everyone Else—Needs Better Schools (Dec. 1, 2021)
Episode 22: The Ugly Truth About K-12 (Nov. 24, 2021)
Episode 21: A Quick Guide to the Reading Wars (Nov. 17, 2021)
Episode 20: Reflections on the Ultimate Goal of K-12 Education (Nov. 10, 2021)
Episode 19: Big Lies in K-12 (Nov. 3, 2021)
Episode 18: Why Liberal Arts Education is Good for Everyone (Oct. 27, 2021)
Episode 17: Who Can Control The Control Freaks? (Oct. 20, '21)
Episode 16: Have the American media betrayed us? (October 13, 2021)
Episode 15: Sir Ken Robinson was wrong and destructive. (October 6, 2021)
Episode 14 (Sept. 29): Socialism versus Education
Episode 13: How We Can Save K-12 (Sept. 22, 2021)
Episode 12: What does "student centered" even mean? Anything?
Episode 11: We Can Have Better Schools At Less Cost (Sept. 8)
Episode 10, Sept. 1: Max Efficiency: How To Study A New Subject
Episode 9, August 25: Dyslexia…Parents Need To Know The Truth
Episode 8: How To Teach In The Third World (15.11 min)
Episode 7, August 11: The Proof Is In The Plodding (23:11 min)
Episode 6: Why Teach History? (24.09 min)
Episode 5: What's Missing In Education?? (13:30 min)
Episode 4: The Crisis In Education: What Caused It? (18:48 min)
Episode 3: Hey! Teach Those Kids To Read (17:16 min)
Episode 2: How I Became An Education Reformer (21:14 min)
Episode 1: Students Don’t Know Anything (18:39 min)