
Let's Fix Education / by 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
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
Episode 128: Don’t Engage in Child Abuse (Wed., Dec., 13, 2023)
Here's the problem simply stated. Much of the Education Establishment is terminally, tragically in love with stuff that doesn’t work. These people are the problem. Those who support them are accomplices. Don't be an accomplice.
Counterproductive theories and methods have the drastic effect of nullifying all serious attempts at education. The kids can't read. The kids can't do basic arithmetic. The kids don't know anything. That’s abuse.
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Published every Wednesday by 9 AM, both audio and transcript.
LET'S FIX EDUCATION
Tell friends there's an easy, fast way to learn what's gone wrong in K-12
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Two excellent background articles:
GOOD SCHOOL? BAD SCHOOL? YOU KNOW!
SHORT VIDEO, 4 MINUTES
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THE WAR AGAINST CHILDREN
short article on American Thinker
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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.
LET'S FIX EDUCATION -- by -- Bruce Deitrick Price
Episode 128 -- (Wed., Dec., 13, 2023)
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Don’t Engage In Child Abuse
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QED: You cannot talk honestly about education reform if you do not try to eliminate all those practices which make children less than they might be.
Did you assume child abuse means sexual abuse? In fact, a lot of the methods used in public schools constitute, not sexual, but cognitive abuse. (Siegfried Engelmann called it “academic child abuse.” That’s where your brain and your personality are scrambled.)
Here’s the point; if you teach children in ways that don’t work very well, you are abusing that child. For example, if after years of reading instruction, students still can’t read, they have been robbed of their time and their future. Are these not criminal offenses? Yes.
Cognitive abuse can be seen in reading, math, and all content subjects such as history, science, geography. Some methods get much better results. If the school uses the inefficient ways, that’s an abusive relationship. Here’s the bad news: this sort of abuse – academic and intellectual— is commonplace.
Sexual abuse is more traumatic and dramatic, more of a violation. On the other hand, cognitive abuse affects tens of millions of Americans, often for many years. It’s a vast silent plague.
Progressive education has, for 100 years, tried to mess with the brains of children. They are supposed to have certain attitudes, specific feelings, and a passion for being cooperative. Progressive educators, no matter how they are dressed, tend to be meddlers in white lab coats. They think it’s their prerogative to rewire children in order to reach ideological goals.
A lot of drugs are prescribed in public schools. Exercise is often limited. Cumbersome, hard-to-learn methods infect every classroom, especially in Common Core. Character is undermined in many ways.
Find a class that’s underperforming and you will probably find “academic child abuse.”
The people in charge of our public schools are con artists. Don't help them. Don’t give them more money.
Now let’s play WHO’S AN ACCOMPLICE?
If you are a leader in a cultural institution of any kind and you’re not using your institution to fight for better practices in our schools, you are an accomplice.
If you are a politician who accepts Common Core, you are an accomplice.
If you are an editor in the media and you don’t investigate the dysfunctional practices at the local schools, you are an accomplice.
if you are part of the Chamber of Commerce and you’re not pushing the local schools to do better, you are an accomplice.
If you are a teacher and you let sight-words and other ineffective methods be used in your classroom, you are an accomplice.
If you are a community leader and you don’t take a close look at all the weak methods embedded in the local schools, you are an accomplice.
The Education Establishment can’t do a mediocre job by itself. It needs your support, especially if you are a wealthy, successful, or powerful person. If you support bad practices in schools, or look the other way, you are part of the problem. I.e., an accomplice.
John Dewey and his successors up to this day are engaged in an ideological quest. Millions of children are being damaged, future citizens are being stunted. No American should put up with this. Don’t be an accomplice.
If you keep giving these people more money without asking for concrete progress, then you are an accomplice.
Take the time to understand these issues at least a little. Why don't sight-words work? Why is direct instruction so much more efficient than constructivism? Why are memorization and practice so casually dismissed?
We can't magically save the school system overnight. But we can systematically eliminate the bad ideas. We can support the best methods.
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K-12 CAN BE SAVED BUT ONLY IF THE PUBLIC DEMANDS IT.
https://www.issuewire.com/k-12-can-be-saved-but-only-if-the-public-demands-it-1648962455695063
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