Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price

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.

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Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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One phenomenon that still shocks me but shouldn't is that our Education Establishment has one peculiar gift: they can riff for hours about literacy and other vital subjects without ever saying anything important.

What our professors tell us is that sometimes birds fly to the east and sometimes they fly to the west and sometimes they move both wings at the same time but sometimes they just glide. In any case we are told just the obvious in weird loops. But we aren’t told causes, or what it means, or where we should go from here.

When Shakespeare talked about a tale told by an idiot, he was talking about our education elite.

Instead of all that, here is the nitty-gritty, the basics of reading that everyone should know.
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BACKGROUND ARTICLES:

Reading Makes Children Smarter
(conversely, not reading makes children less smart)
18 ordinary English words that Julius Caesar spoke

Reading Is Easy (four minute video)
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Word-Wise Education
757-455-5020
Bruce Deitrick Price

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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.

Support the show