Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
Bruce Deitrick Price
Savvy, practical insights on where our Education Establishment went wrong and how most schools can be improved.LET'S FIX EDUCATION explains the many dysfunctional theories and methods operating within our schools. This podcast is intended for parents, teachers, and community leaders who want education reform.
Each week, LET'S FIX EDUCATION examines another problem in our public schools, such as: Constructivism. Learning styles. Sight-words. No memorization. Cooperative learning. Prior knowledge. Reform math. The dilution of knowledge. Common Core. Project-based learning. Student-centered, etc. In fact, there are DOZENS of counterproductive learning and teaching theories, all made worse by ideological motives.
Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, and education reformer. He has analyzed the problems in education for more than 30 years. Price is the author of "Saving K-12: What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them?" (190 pages) His main education site is Improve-Education.org. For more information about book and author, visit Lit4u.com. Newest novels are "Frankie" (about a harmless robot) and "The Boy Who Saves The World" (about a boy who saves the world).
"Bruce Price’s SAVING K-12 is a MUST read! It is precise, concise and powerful. Action is required...for the sake of our children, our grandchildren and the future of the American Republic!” Robert W. Sweet, Jr., long-time President of The National Right to Read Foundation
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Episode 183: Celebrate the New Year with my Most Popular Podcast (Wed., Jan. 1, 2025)
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
01/01/25 • 5 min
Episode 183: Celebrate the New Year with my Most Popular Podcast
Wed., Jan. 1, 2025
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Meanwhile, if you want to support my campaign for better schools, that's easy to do at SUPPORT EDUCATION REFORM.
http://spot.fund/SupportEducationReform
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Let's Fix Education explains to Americans why their schools are so bad. The people in charge prefer mediocrity because they are socialists of one kind or another. If people work together to promote real education, we'll have it.
Episode 103: The most obvious conspiracy in the history of the world. (June 21, 2023)
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
06/20/23 • 7 min
What is the favorite gimmick used by Marxists? They promote dumb policies that make society worse. For example, they allow looting and arson in urban centers. For a parallel example, they allow whole word and sight-words in the public schools.
Having created lots of pain and destruction, they claim to be the group that can fix everything. That is the gimmick. Blatantly false but not blatant enough because so many Americans accept this nonsense.
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Background article: "How to read (and how to fail at reading)"
What is reading...really??? The mystery is explained.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/05/how_to_read_and_how_to_fail_at_reading.html
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The best way to understand problems in public schools
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New novel: Art and Beauty .
Crime fiction. Set in Manhattan.
Dangerously well written.
Published by Web-E-Books. Publisher says: “Bruce Deitrick Price puts
a new spin on the all-American, sexy, fast-talking detective story by creating
a truly fresh crime-fighter personality and placing his original P.I. character, Jon Dak, among movers and shakers in the NYC art and fashion world.”
< Enjoy Chapter 1. ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY >
< Enjoy Chapter 2. MISS BABBAGE > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
@educatt
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.
Episode 118: Reading Rescued! Thanks to Lucy Calkins (Oct. 4, 2023)
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
10/04/23 • 7 min
Time to celebrate. Reading, real reading, can have a come back. This is big. Please share this announcement with 50 of your favorite people.
Reading Wars have raged for almost 100 years. This was never an imaginary thing, a mere figure of speech. It was real Americans, sensible Americans, trying to protect their schools and their children from an infestation. What progressives called education was really a kind of indoctrination, a kind of poison, a kind of engineered stupor. I.e. the deliberate dumbing down of America
I kept this thing short so everyone could read it two times. You have to understand what reading should be and then you'll appreciate how badly damaged we are. The left has been engaged in a dumbing down of America, and their main weapon, their nuclear weapon, was replacing traditional reading instruction with nonsense designed not to work.
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READING IS EASY / 4 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JV0tPGn-Ws&t=157s
GOOD SCHOOL? BAD SCHOOL? YOU KNOW. / 3.5 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuihhEpQETs
AN EDUCATOR ADMITS HER MISTAKES / 3 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Chjlzn8ByQ&t=60s
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CODA:
RE: Support Education Reform
I’m raising funds to rebuild my main site Improve-Education.org (founded2005), which was "lost" by the hosting company.
Perhaps just as important, I want to be able to publicize important developments, like this news about phonics and the Science of Reading. Everybody in America should know this squalid story where determined ideologues sabotaged the effective teaching of literacy. (That's my conclusion.) There are many millions damaged by this activity and many many millions more who still don’t know what happened to reading in American public schools.
For either good cause, please consider donating to Support Education Reform.
http://spot.fund/SupportEducationReform
Additionally, this site presents a brief rundown of the half-dozen different facets of my reform efforts: Podcast "Let's Fix Education".... 50 YouTube videos.... 150 articles on American Thinker....1000 answers on Quora....ETC.
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The best way to understand problems in public schools
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Let's Fix Education explains to Americans why their schools are so bad. The people in charge prefer mediocrity because they are socialists of one kind or another. If people work together to promote real education, we'll have it.
Episode 90: An Act of War: what the professors of education did to our schools (March 22, 2023)
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
03/21/23 • 8 min
40 years ago, a congressional commission concluded that our public schools are so bad they might as well be an act of war by an unfriendly foreign power.
The congressional report was titled A Nation at Risk. This is a big deal. It's not some scholar’s opinion. It's not a reconstruction of something far away. It's what the best people in 1983 thought had happened to us. Namely, the wrong people controlled our schools.
The perps were the far-left and the professors of education. They are very skilled at sliding around in the shadows, trying not to leave any traces as they trample to death the very thought of superior public education.
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“An unfriendly foreign power. ” And who might that be?? History tells us that the USSR was on the attack internationally as soon as the Russian Revolution was consolidated in 1920. See article: Lenin’s Train Goes Chugging Through American Education.
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NB: transmogrification is a wonderfully fancy word that perfectly describes a long complex process by which you transform something mediocre into something excellent or, as in our national tragedy, the opposite.
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Do you enjoy crime fiction? Murder mysteries? Intrigue?
Art and Beauty is now available as an ebook.
Manhattan. When art galleries and model agencies are the two most glamorous businesses on the planet. About a highly successful family: The husband owns model agencies, the wife owns an elite art gallery, their son is destined for Harvard.
Published by Web-E-Books.com. Scroll GENRE to CRIME, select Art and Beauty, explore 6-page mini-site about this novel.
Or read Chapter One here.
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Let's Fix Education explains to Americans why their schools are so bad. The people in charge prefer mediocrity because they are socialists of one kind or another. If people work together to promote real education, we'll have it.
Episode 114: Support Education Reform Wednesday, Sept 6, 2023
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
09/06/23 • 6 min
The Education Establishment has cunningly devolved our school system. Little is taught, little is learned. K-12 is a boring hell for most children.
After Covid was over, the total number of students had dropped by more than 1 million. These children voted with their feet.
Let's stop pretending that the school system is acceptable. It's time to support education reform. That means we figure out what went wrong, and one by one we fix the problems.
Most importantly, we stop the social engineering so beloved by the hard left. We return to a knowledge curriculum that lifts every student to his or her potential.
CONCLUSION: Here’s a statement of my perspectives and proposals.
SUPPORT EDUCATION REFORM.
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Please help me improve K-12...
Americans should have great public schools.
We could so easily have them....
Here are my solutions and
how you can help.
http://spot.fund/SupportEducationReform
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New novel: Art and Beauty .
Crime fiction. Set in Manhattan.
Dangerously well written.
Published by Web-E-Books.com /// Editor says: “Bruce Deitrick Price puts
a new spin on the all-American, sexy, fast-talking detective story by creating
a truly fresh crime-fighter personality and placing his original P.I. character, Jon Dak, among movers and shakers in the NYC art and fashion world.”
< Enjoy Chapter 1. ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY >
< Enjoy Chapter 2. MISS BABBAGE >
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.
Episode 76: Dyslexia is a Fancy Word for Sabotage (Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
12/14/22 • 9 min
Episode 76: Dyslexia is a Fancy Word for Sabotage (Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Here's the bottom line: phonics is essential, because it’s a mnemonic device for dealing with a huge language like English.
If you don't have the phonics sounds to remind you how to pronounce the words, you will struggle and stall.
College students need more than 100,000 words. A computer might master that many sight-words but if we are talking about your kid, you can forget it.
America had universal literacy until 1931 when the Education Establishment insisted that we drop phonics and use sight-words. Now we have universal barely-literate.
If you agree that we should dumb down the American population, you will surely love sight-words.
Remember that the basic premise was that you first teach children to read and then they can teach themselves. That's the next step which our schools have cleverly, cunningly, criminally made impossible.
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Video exposes dyslexia hysteria: The Strange Truth About Dyslexia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFLLnRWROQ
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Best way to understand problems in public schools: Saving K-12
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New novel: Frankie
-- logline : Frankie is harmless. Chaos ensues. --
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Let's Fix Education explains to Americans why their schools are so bad. The people in charge prefer mediocrity because they are socialists of one kind or another. If people work together to promote real education, we'll have it.
Episode 82: The Internet wants to know: What are Chinese schools doing that Americans should adopt? (Wed., January 25, 2023)
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
01/25/23 • 6 min
Episode 82: The Internet wants to know: What are Chinese schools doing that Americans should adopt? (Wed., January 25, 2023)
Do you want a quick fix for our public schools? Do what the Chinese do. Hint: that’s everything we did 100 years ago. They are not dummies. They copied us because we did what works. Used to.
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Background article: “K-12: History of the Conspiracy Against Reading”
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Episodes are not in any order. Start reading anywhere. Everything remains current because the Education Establishment effectively prohibits change.
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Best way to understand problems in public schools: Saving K-12
(Want to help my work? Discuss this book; give it to friends.)
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New novel: Frankie
(logline : She's harmless. Chaos ensues.)
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Let's Fix Education explains to Americans why their schools are so bad. The people in charge prefer mediocrity because they are socialists of one kind or another. If people work together to promote real education, we'll have it.
Episode 85: Weird Al vs. Professors-Run-Wild (Wed., Feb. 15, 2023)
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
02/15/23 • 8 min
Episode 85: Weird Al vs. Professors-Run-Wild (Wed., Feb. 15, 2023)
Professors like to say you can only describe, you can’t prescribe. Of course they are talking about you.
They can prescribe all day long. They can tell you to do this, and not to do that, and every variation in between.
Besides, there really is near-unanimity between your local newspapers, your favorite TV shows, and your favorite magazines. That's Standard English. So you get some kids raised in the backwoods, and they're hard to understand. Do you want to sabotage the rest of the class in order to accommodate these few kids?
See Al's great video: Word Crimes
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Background article: K–12: Ten Lies Teachers Tell You
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Episodes Are Not In Any Order. Start Reading Anywhere. Everything remains current because the Education Establishment effectively prohibits improvement.
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Best way to understand problems in public schools: Saving K-12
(Want to help my work? Discuss this book; give it to friends.)
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New novel: Frankie
(logline : She's harmless. Chaos ensues.)
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Let's Fix Education explains to Americans why their schools are so bad. The people in charge prefer mediocrity because they are socialists of one kind or another. If people work together to promote real education, we'll have it.
Episode 136: The K-12 Gulag (Wed., Feb. 7, 2024)
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
02/07/24 • 6 min
Episode 136: The K-12 Gulag (Wed., Feb. 7, 2024)
INTRO
Our schools are doing a lousy job, but the public is so befuddled, there is hardly a squawk.
Every American should ask this question: why are we putting up with second-rate schools while paying top dollar?
ARTICLES THAT GO WITH THIS PODCAST:
Recent NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) figures continue to indicate that only ONE-THIRD of American teenagers are "proficient" in reading. (https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
Meanwhile new numbers have appeared from PISA (Program for International Students Assessment). Psychology Today states our plight with unusual candor: "US scores show that our education system is flatlining.” (!!!)
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NAEP and PISA scores are confusing. Here is a 5-minute article that clarifies what's going on. See “K-12: Are low scores a problem?” (on American Thinker) https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/k12_are_low_test_scores_a_problem.html
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There are two ways to help my reform efforts....
Give Saving K-12 when you need a smart gift for smart people....
Visit Support Education Reform for a 2-page explanation.
Main goal is to help Americans understand what happened to the schools and how we fix them. Please pass this on to parents and community leaders.
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Let's Fix Education explains to Americans why their schools are so bad. The people in charge prefer mediocrity because they are socialists of one kind or another. If people work together to promote real education, we'll have it.
Episode 140: The Legacy of Rita Kramer and the Embarrassment Factor (Wed., March 6, 2024)
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
03/06/24 • 7 min
Episode 140: The Legacy of Rita Kramer and the Embarrassment Factor (Wed., March 6, 2024)
Subtitle on book: The Miseducation of America's Teachers
Kramer: "Teachers were being taught to teach political propaganda as opposed to academic subjects."
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>>> my Amazon review:
>>> my article about Rita Kramer on X
from podcast: We don't have a chance of saving the schools until we can neutralize the extreme power of far-left professors. This would be easy If everyone understood that our professors are all too often quacks and pretenders.
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Here are two ways to help....
Give Saving K-12 when you need a smart gift.
Visit Support Education Reform
for a 2-page explanation
of what we need to do.
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Word-Wise Education
757-455-5020
Bruce Deitrick Price
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Let's Fix Education explains to Americans why their schools are so bad. The people in charge prefer mediocrity because they are socialists of one kind or another. If people work together to promote real education, we'll have it.
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