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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 knowle ...
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The truth is daily trampled. I'm not joking or exaggerating. For example, phonics is necessary but schools deliver sight-words, which will damage children. Schools won't teach elementary arithmetic. Too difficult or racist. And constructivism fills the rest of the day. Kids are told to construct their own new knowledge. Good luck. So we have hopele…
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Suppose that clever enemies managed to eliminate the good theories and methods from our schools. Finally, there's nothing left but bad ideas. What would that look like? Probably just what you would now find in your local schools. Podcast and transcript are short so you can savor what has happened to us. —————————————--------------------------------…
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Public schools are now like the Titanic. Sinking fast. We need aggressive reform. We need Resistance. The professors of education at Harvard are obsessed with social engineering. They want to make new kinds of children. How ghoulish. Or Frankenstein-ish. But what we need is educated children. We do this with three simple steps. Safe schools. Childr…
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Episode 123: Sight-words are a con?? Of course. (Wed., Nov. 6, 2023) Sight-words, always a con, always a funny bit of business that the professors of illiteracy came up with. The field of reading has never been more chaotic and irrational. Every teacher seems to have a video explaining some subtle leap into a better future. But all of these things …
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Episode 122: Good school?? Bad school?? It's so obvious! (November 1, 2023) K-12 REFORM BEGINS HERE The ship of schools is sinking. Most of the theories and methods used in our public schools are destructive nonsense. The media won't tell you what's going on. But surely the signals emanating from our educational sector reveal intellectual and moral…
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Episode 121: Two Great Books For Smart People (Wed., Oct. 25, 2023) EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUT WERE TOO BUSY TO FIND OUT. The answers are here, in a book titled: Saving K-12: What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them?.... And in a second book titled The Education Enigma. -------------------------…
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Support Education Reform — a true story Decline of public school education in America is too extensive to be accidental. It's a plan. Every parent needs to understand the dangers and what to do about them.. Read Bruce Deitrick Price’s Support Education Reform. Takes about five minutes. You'll find all the information that parents need to fight a mi…
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The public schools are a hell hole. Do you think the experts don't know what they're doing? Oh, they know. They know from A-to-Z that everything they do encourages bullying and bad manners, degrades authority, dumbs down the students, and makes everybody's day miserable. They are dangerous, these so-called experts. Most people who have been to ed s…
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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 i…
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Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023 For more than 125 years, Education has been a field dominated by far-left thinking. Instead of reading, writing, arithmetic, and other traditional academic content, these ideologues emphasize social engineering and psychological manipulation. These concerns should not be primary in an educational institution. Worst of all,…
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Let's get serious about reading. You can teach it only with phonics because English is a phonetic language. All the other stuff is bogus, a distraction, counterfeit. a perversion, a crime against the next generation. If you are preparing pedagogy for a slave population or workers who need to read only short instructions, then sight-words are okay. …
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Episode 115 -- Wed., Sept. 13, 2023 There are good ways and bad ways to do everything. John Saxon was obsessed with finding the best ways to teach major subjects, especially math. Our public schools seem not to share that obsession. John Saxon has been gone 28 years but his spirit and his famous textbooks endure. Every parent should understand what…
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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 supp…
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Public schools are bad. There's no excuse for this but there is an explanation. The Education Establishment is far-left, and they don't mind dumbing down education if they can thereby dumb down the country in general. If you want better schools you have to reverse the whole process. Bring back the good ideas that liberals got rid of. Dump the intel…
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School Alert #1: Don’t Accept Lies About Reading. Here's The Truth. What is the single weakest spot in all of education? What is the Achilles heel? Simple. Reading. Teach it properly and children will proceed in normal way to writing, geography, history, science, and the arts. Teach it in a stupid way, and the children are consigned to hell. Cultur…
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Response on Twitter: “THIS IS ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL AND BRILLIANT.” (Wed., August 16, 2023) The Education Establishment has an S&M routine they inflict on the American public, boredom alternating with hopelessness. So much of K-12 education is counterintuitive and counterproductive. Kids are not excited about knowledge; instead they are made dumb by s…
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Our Department of Education recently launched a bold initiative called: Raise the Bar: STEM Excellence for All Students initiative. QED: Many noble sentiments. But there seems to be little effort at creating the foundation which would make them possible. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Teaching basic science qui…
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The Education Establishment does not allow K-12 to improve. They like mediocrity. That's why, 30 years ago, George Carlin could announce so confidently, "Nothing will get better. Don't expect it to get better." I hope everyone will get more involved in education. For a statement of my perspectives and proposals, please visit SUPPORT EDUCATION REFOR…
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The Greeks were so clever. Why not take advantage of this? There are hundreds of memorable quotes left by Greek philosophers, a job they may have invented. Use these quotes to draw children into geography, history, logic, etc.. The pattern in K-12 education, for more than 100 years, is to ask a question: is this material easy, is it simple? If not,…
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Garbage in, garbage out, it's an infallible rule. If you make students do something the dumb, inefficient way, everything goes downhill. If a benevolent alien were to tour our country, his first comment is likely to be, Hey, mate, somebody's playing games. You’re using all the worst ideas known to the universe.. ------------------------------------…
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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…
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Keep It Real. No More Theory. You can do something--that's real life. Or you can talk about doing something, which is theory. Too much theory and there's no real life left. I think that education to an astonishing degree is theory-driven. That's professors talking, talking, talking. This means concretely that a bunch of highly paid experts could sp…
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Reaction videos are a fairly new phenomenon. This article explains what they are and why they're wonderful. Basically, any video content can be the stimulus for somebody's new video content. Now the audience gets two separate contents but merged. Below are some of my favorites. These are rock 'n' roll because I am a child of rock 'n' roll. But igno…
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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 t…
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Episode 102: A Best Way To Teach Everything (Wed., June 14, 2023) Schools could teach so much more. Make all instruction much simpler, much faster, much more dramatic. With lots of repetition. Tell the kids what you're going to explain to them, why it’ll be fun, and how they can use the information for the rest of their lives. ---------------------…
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Episode 101: Can you stand the truth about Mutant Math? Deep-down you probably can't accept the thought that there are people intentionally sabotaging American children. But there are. They teach math in ways guaranteed to make sure children don't know much math. I quickly explain five of the worst gimmicks. Once you know them, you can help get the…
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This is Episode 100 of my podcast "Let's Fix Education.” Buzzsprout says I will get a gold star. Actually, I am somewhat impressed with myself because I went two years without missing a Wednesday deadline. This episode explains the the last-minute change of my book title. My big point throughout is that American K-12 is under attack and everyone ne…
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The most brutal satire in American literature (Wed., May 24, 2023) Reading is the central skill we need in school. That is why the far-left has so persistently tried to discredit and discard phonics. Instead, children must memorize the English language one sight-word at a time. Folly. The passage discussed here is from a famous novel. You might thi…
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"Every scientist must believe in God.” Mark Liu Thinking you know all the answers guarantees that you won't know all the answers. Which brings us back to critical thinking, which was the topic here all along. It's a constant irritation to me that our Education Establishment pretends to care about critical thinking or truth generally. They manage to…
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Instead of education, kids receive indoctrination. That's not much fun. And when it fades away, the kids have nothing left, Sad truth of the matter. Our public schools are no longer in education business so much as they are in the indoctrination business. That and wasting time. Elon Musk has such a nice way of saying the essence of what needs to be…
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Many public schools insist on teaching sight-words, which guarantees a long slow process. Until the 1930s, our schools taught phonics and we had more than 90% literacy. Then American educators were bamboozled by the clever Marxists, progressives, etc. This had two huge consequences. America's reading level dropped to one of the lowest in the indust…
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There's a lot of sadness in K-12 but there's also a lot of kinky, this-gang-can’t-shoot-straight humor. All these overpaid, self-anointed experts but they can't teach children to read. Nor count. Nor know very much about the country they live in, never mind the world. All we need now are clever comics eager to take advantage of the Comedy Zone we k…
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The big theme here is that our K-12 schools are a mess because basically the Education Establishment wants them that way. The main tactic is to teach reading in an inefficient way so that kids don't actually learn to read. Chaos and confusion are the norm. Teachers suffer a lot of stress. It would be easy to fix these problems. FYI: Why teachers ar…
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If you rely on the newspapers you might get the impression the public schools are a jungle. A combat zone. An irrational place no rational person would want to be. Clearly, our schools are out of control and need all the help they can get. We should call on the people at the top, the highly educated and successful people, the movers and shakers, th…
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When Senator McCarthy told Americans there were lots of Communists in Hollywood and throughout Washington DC, pundits shrieked. That's sick. There are no Communists and if you say otherwise, you're crazy. This whole experience is much like when you study American K-12 and find there are scores of badly designed, counterintuitive programs and method…
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Traditionally, Americans believed in competition, knowledge, learning, grades, ability, mastery, truth, logic, all those good things going all the way back to the Greeks. John Dewey and his socialist cartel rejected all those practices. They want cooperation, fairness, equality, equity, inclusion. Everybody's the same, that's the general idea. But …
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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 though…
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With phonics, most children learn to read by the second grade. With sight-words, the majority of child hardly learn to read at all. Consider the vast difference between the two outcomes. ---------------------------------------- SUPPLEMENTAL ARTICLES: K-12: SIGHT-WORDS ARE A SICK JOKE K-12: PHONICS IS WINNING: ============================= Episodes …
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Here's what children need to be told about school, and why they need to be told. K-12 is like Bernie Madoff's Ponzi. Many thousands of customers thought their money was safe, and making more money every day. Until one day they were told they had no money. All gone. All a sham. And these were sophisticated people, rich people, smart people, successf…
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There's a war against our children. Have you read anything about it in the media? The public schools are dumber each year. Can you explain this? Our Education Establishment should be called the Anti-Education Establishment. Their great genius is to develop theories and methods that stifle the acquisition and use of knowledge. Why do they want to do…
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Everyone feels the difference. Stapleton’s anthem is more serious, somehow more muted but more beautiful. It's the one that people like, because it’s respectful of the history behind the song. There are many reaction videos; here's a good one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip5WdqbWK4E Ronald Reagan narrates what happened at Fort McHenry, 1812. ht…
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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 news…
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Parents, teachers, and children are equally victims of the K-12 educational system. Let's not blame them for very much. Let's blame the people at the top, the dangerous desperados which I call the Education Establishment. The United States spends vastly more per capita than any other country. But our public schools end up in 20th place or worse in …
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Some of the goofiest educators that ever lived want to eliminate facts and knowledge from our school system. These pretenders seek to teach only feelings, attitudes, and pain. Our schools are being transformed into rooms full of nothing. If you want to save K-12, you must stop these nihilists, and restore our enjoyment of the smart side of life. NO…
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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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Episode 81: Teacher reveals how dysfunctional K-12 really is (Wed., Jan. 18, 2023) Teachers typically have 18 years of education, but little education takes place. Thus this tragic summary: “Our ‘educators’ are not educated.” This situation is not merely ironic. It is preposterous. Shameful. Criminal. We pay hundreds of billions and we get ignoranc…
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Episode 80: George Carlin and The Truth about American Education (Wed., Jan. 11) Are vastly rich industrialists mainly greedy? That's the common assumption, as Karl Marx explained. George Carlin seems to echo the same vision. The people running our society, or ruining it, are propelled by greed. Even with the very successful people, I don't think g…
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Episode 79: Critical Thinking — how to teach it to children (Wed., Jan. 4, 2023) Teaching something, anything, is the first order of business and the sacred obligation of every school. What we have instead in America is tens of thousands of schools where students spend millions of hours each year but at the end of the year they know hardly one bit …
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Episode 78: In 2023, Reasons to be Cheerful — ONE, TWO, THREE (Wed., Dec. 28, 2022) Short podcast concludes that Biden has exceeded all expectations for worst possible president. Here's the good news. The weirdness of Biden's judgement and behavior should frighten most average citizens into wanting a return to normalcy. Normal will start to look re…
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Episode 77: What every teacher needs to know (Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022) K-12 is full of uninformed teachers and bad techniques. Let's focus on how things should be done. As simply as possible, that's what the master does. Amateurs love confusion and extraneous matter. In the middle of the wedding, let's talk about the history of South America. I wa…
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