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 189: Government Tests Confirm Decline (Wed, Feb. 12, 2025 (but late)
Episode 189: Government Tests Confirm Decline
Episode 189: Government Tests Confirm Decline -- Wed, Feb. 12, 2025 (but late)
(First let me mention this is the first deadline I missed in three years; my email provider stopped doing its job for two or three days.)
Main news: EducationNext.org reports that we have been mired in shrinking academic outcomes for more than a decade,. And everything.continues to get worse.
“We’ve always had an achievement gap. It was getting worse prior to the pandemic. Since 2019, it has exploded and we can’t tell yet if it’s done growing.”
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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 189 Wed, Feb. 12, 2025 (but late)
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Government Tests Confirm Decline
Scores from NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) were released January 29. How bad were the scores? Headlines screamed “new low.”
You should not be surprised. My big lament for 25 years is simple: There are no good ideas left in our K-12 schools, which are bombed-out towns, intellectually speaking. I'm trying to tell you the reality: if you let schools use the worst theories and methods concocted by human ingenuity, you will get lousy scores, which brings us to a recent edition of EducationNext.com
This site might be described as the New York Times of K-12, upscale, tries to seem judicious, but is very much part of the liberal problem. In short. they complain, but not loud enough.
Whatever this site tells you is what the honest people are talking about at the higher levels. If you listen to it for three minutes, you will think, OK, nothing good is happening there. Maybe we should level the place.
That would be my suggestion. We can start by supporting Trump's plan to eliminate the Department of Education. That's the control mechanism for keeping all the schools under the thumb of the Education Establishment headquartered in Washington, DC.
Never forget that the education wars have been going full blast more than 100 years. My book Saving K-12 explains all the ways that the social engineers devised to keep Americans slow and slower.
The Education Establishment for past 100 years has behaved like hens laying eggs. They flutter and puff but it's just more cracked eggs because the hens have a genetic defect created by enemy meddling.
To quickly gain a sense of how far we have fallen, here are recent announcements in EducationNext.org, reporting on the new National Assessment of Educational Progress aka NAEP. “
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#1. The education depression continues
….we have been mired in shrinking academic outcomes for more than a decade, exemplified by a surge in students with very low performance levels. From 1990 to 2013, we made massive progress in that area. By 2022, most of it had disappeared.
The latest scores confirm that the depression rolls on. Below is an updated version of a graph made in the fall. For each racial group, we have just as many 8th graders scoring below basic as we did in 2022 and far more than we had in 2013.
More headlines:
#2. Mediocrity rules…
#3. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is…
#4. Money matters, but it’s not mattering enough right now….
Most research finds that providing more funding for schools leads to better outcomes such as higher test scores and more college-going. Just last summer, two separate studies found that the federal infusion of $190 billion for Covid recovery was helping. Along come these new NAEP results. We spent an unprecedented amount of money. And results are very discouraging.
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In other words, they used Covid to justify a massive waste of money.
What now? Too scary quotes sum up everything:
“We’ve always had an achievement gap. It was getting worse prior to the pandemic. Since 2019, it has exploded and we can’t tell yet if it’s done growing.”
“Some districts and states have no plan to reverse the sad patterns because they barely acknowledge the patterns exist.”
Let me summarize the situation another way. They got rid of phonics to make room for Sight-words. They got rid of basic arithmetic with gimmicks like New Math. They got rid of Direct Instruction and general knowledge in favor of Constructivism. The bad boys have been bad and the good boys stand silently on the sidelines, My mission is to alert the good citizens of America that they have been too casual about letting fake experts take over their schools. Wake up.
https://www.educationnext.org/hard-lessons-from-new-naep-results/
This past months I've been putting together proof that the education wars really started much earlier than most people imagine. Lenin announced the formation of the Communist International 1919. The Communists, having defeated czarist Russia, were feeling confident and defiant. They declared war on the world. They particularly invaded and manipulated American media and education. The same attack continues today. More on this subject in the weeks and months ahead
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https://www.educationnext.org/hard-lessons-from-new-naep-results/
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Price’s writing is urgent, cinematic, and unrelenting. The narrative unfolds in rapid bursts; short, impactful sentences drive the tension forward, while swift shifts in perspective heighten the sense of chaos. The relentless media frenzy and conflicting public narratives reflect the modern era’s struggles with misinformation and mass hysteria...."