Bruce Deitrick Price's Posts - School Leadership 2.02024-03-19T04:19:06ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPricehttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2190169856?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://schoolleadership20.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=082x40h6rl8cj&xn_auth=noThe Legacy of Rita Kramer (1929-2023) reveals the secret history of ed schoolstag:schoolleadership20.com,2024-03-07:1990010:BlogPost:3906892024-03-07T23:00:00.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">LET'S FIX EDUCATION, <span>Episode 140,</span> Bruce Deitrick Price</span><br></br> <br></br> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br></br> <br></br> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Legacy of Rita Kramer (1929-2023)</strong></span><br></br> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">and the Embarrassment Factor</span><br></br> <br></br> <br></br> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">In 1990 Rita Kramer toured the country to study the best ed schools. She was reporting on education for ABC,…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">LET'S FIX EDUCATION, <span>Episode 140,</span> Bruce Deitrick Price</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Legacy of Rita Kramer (1929-2023)</strong></span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">and the Embarrassment Factor</span><br/> <br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">In 1990 Rita Kramer toured the country to study the best ed schools. She was reporting on education for ABC, and had begun to suspect that American ed schools were more corrupted and indoctrinated than most people ever imagined. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Her research in 1990 led to a very important book, <em>Ed School Follies</em>. I recommend it to everyone who wants to understand what happened to K-12 </strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I reviewed her book on Amazon in 2007; in 2023 I wanted to interview her but didn't know whether she was alive or gone. Finally I found an email and wrote to congratulate her on her work and give her a bunch of questions. A few weeks later she was gone but her daughter sent me her answers to my questions. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Here is the most important Q and A:</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>BDP: What were the things that most offended you as you worked on your book in 1990?</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Rita Kramer: “Finding out that teachers were being taught to teach political propaganda as opposed to academic subjects. What I observed first-hand back then was the groundwork being laid for the crisis in education today.”</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So we have a very smart, informed witness more than 30 years ago testifying that public schools were subversive and controlled by ideologues. These people ripped the heart out of education. At the same time they were sly enough so that the average citizen had no idea what was going on.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>If you want to understand how the public schools evolved into a sinister force, alienated from the rest of American society, Rita Kramer's book would be Exhibit A.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A lot of people have trouble believing that our public schools intentionally moved into a different sphere. The more history you know, the more obvious this thesis becomes.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12398457270?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12398457270?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="300" class="align-center"/></a>The history of the American education shifted gears around 1900 when John Dewey’s "progressive" theories took over the public schools. Gears shifted again after 1921 when members of the Communist International (Comintern) started arriving in America. They weren't here to make friends; their business was domination.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So, for almost 100 years, the tide has moved relentlessly against traditional education, common sense theories, and effective practice. Every decade, the schools are worse than the decade before. <strong>The perennial question is, how can they get away with this betrayal?</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In fairness, Marxist revolutionaries are well organized. The most predictable technique used by these invaders is to constantly change the jargon, arguments, and marketing strategies. The verbiage is so dense and incoherent that few parents can discuss the problems their children have.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A second factor protecting these ne’er-do-well professors is that the public is hopelessly confused but nobody wants to confess just how confused they are. I'm betting that the president of the United States, his cabinet, the House of Representatives and the executives running the Fortune 500 almost without exception do not understand, for example, why Constructivism is destructive, why sight-words are problems, and why New Math was such a flop in 1962</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So there is a sort of paralysis, or bewilderment, neutralizing the movers and shakers who run this country. They can't understand the tech-speak. How can they be interviewed by a reporter? How are they going to appear before Congress when they aren’t sure of anything, and their every word might be laughed at by haughty professors.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So I recently coined this phrase: <em>the Embarrassment Factor.</em> <b>I say to the American people, get over yourself, admit you find K-12 murky and confusing.</b> That's by design! Find people who want to learn more and discuss the decline of K-12. (Search any ed subject you're interested in with my name; you can find many articles.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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. According to Rita Kramer, they are the problem. Tell them they need to understand what our great needs are: phonics, direct instruction, basic arithmetic, and all the traditional methods that are still the best choice.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Read some of Kramer’s book, meet the traitorous commissars running the ed schools, then you'll be able to help keep the country from sinking further.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And let us never forget who should be embarrassed. That would be professors of education who concoct the unworkable and incomprehensible ideas found in K-12.</span><br/> <br/> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
<p>>>> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3RXM68GRTX9K3/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0595153240">my Amazon review: from 2007<br/></a> <br/> >>> <a href="https://twitter.com/educatt/status/1764128871065018650">my similar but longer article on X</a>-<br/> <br/> -----------------------------------------</p>Episode 127: How far do we let the schools fall??tag:schoolleadership20.com,2023-12-08:1990010:BlogPost:3891602023-12-08T22:55:03.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
<p>Episode 127 of "Let's Fix Education"</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">American K-12 drifts ever downward. If you doubt that, this podcast is for you. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(Spoken or transcript. America needs to hear/read this. Pass it on.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For years I’ve claimed there are few good ideas left in K-12. The good ideas have been…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">American K-12 drifts ever downward. If you doubt that, this podcast is for you. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(Spoken or transcript. America needs to hear/read this. Pass it on.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For years I’ve claimed there are few good ideas left in K-12. The good ideas have been systematically discredited, and then buried.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Now I say we are in free fall. The public schools get worse each year. Grades, testing, and anecdotes prove this.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here is some more proof. Recently, I've seen several new series of street interviews, where the <b>dumbest possible questions</b> are asked, often on a college campus, and many students don't know the obvious answers. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Some questions are supremely simple. You have to be a genius to think of questions like this: <b>“How long is a quarter hour?.… How many states are in the country?… What country is Hawaii in?….In a century, what year will it be?….What is 3×3×3?…..How many states in the US?” </b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Everyone, especially those of you sitting lazily on the sidelines, should spend an hour looking at as many of these little Q&A’s as you can. You'll realize that 1) you are participating in one of the great cultural scams of all time and 2) you're probably on the wrong side.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here is my new favorite question, "<em>If you were born 13 years ago, how old would you be today?</em> Students generally pick 8, 10 or 12. I have no idea why.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In a nutshell this is what the education professors have done to us. There is a scorched-earth war against reading, arithmetic, geography, history, science, literature, and general knowledge. Everything that was once considered essential knowledge in K-12 is now dismissed as trivial, something children will supposedly pick up as they go. Further, children need not memorize anything easily available on the Internet. Why bother?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The good news is that some of these videos have inspired thousands of comments. Apparently there are millions of people who never heard that education is gone to hell. Now many people are angry, depressed, shocked and, we can hope, galvanized to resist. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">One part of the problem is that teachers are touchy and defensive. They hear criticism and hunker down, thereby keeping the bad ideas in play for another generation. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I think that knowledge is beautiful. It is for sure powerful. Non-teaching, at today’s level, is a massive dereliction of duty, like a nurse giving the wrong pills to patients. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Come on, teachers, you know that students are being cheated and damaged.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In a nutshell this is what the education professors have done to us. There is a scorched-earth war against reading, arithmetic, geography, history, science, literature, and general knowledge. Everything that was once considered essential knowledge in K-12 is now dismissed as trivial, something children will supposedly pick up as they go. Further, children need not memorize anything easily available on the Internet. Why bother?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The good news is that some of these videos have inspired thousands of comments. Apparently there are millions of people who never heard that education is gone to hell. Now many people are angry, depressed, shocked and, we can hope, galvanized to resist. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">One part of the problem is that teachers are touchy and defensive. They hear criticism and hunker down, thereby keeping the bad ideas in play for another generation. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I think that knowledge is beautiful. It is for sure powerful. Non-teaching, at today’s level, is a massive dereliction of duty, like a nurse giving the wrong pills to patients. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Come on, teachers, you know that students are being cheated and damaged.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At this point in a trial, lawyers can move for summary judgment, thus: “Your Honor, clearly the so-called education experts are the most incompetent people who ever lived OR they are ideological gangsters.” </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Supreme Court would have to see the point, thus: “Yes, these students do seem to be horrendously uninformed about the simplest things. The professors at the top would seem to have secret agenda….”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After 1950 everything started downhill, a little bit each year. Now we're on the eve of destruction. I’m asking every American, why are you putting up with this? Can America sustain itself as a democracy when the citizens are so ignorant? Everybody should be terrified because the people subverting education, the Marxist totalitarians, are smart and relentless. They assess their targets with a killer’s eye. We are now a fat turkey and they’re thinking, O<em>h, look what we have here. Dinner.</em>”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Communists and such have been engaged in a war against knowledge, against truth, against fact, against correct information, for a long time. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For more than a century, in fact.</span></p>
<p><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here is John Dewey, the Father of American Education, telling you in professor prose that knowledge, as far as he's concerned, is a mere nothing:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>“The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.”</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Feel the contempt. <em>“Mere learning”</em> dismisses everything cerebral or academic that goes on in schools. Dewey had one big word in his little head. Cooperatively. He wanted children to work cooperatively, quietly, passively. People who will do what they're told.</span></p>
<p><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">The professors of education have done two cunning things. Eliminated most good ideas, along with most knowledge. And they shrouded anything educational in a thick fog of jargon and lies. Nobody knows what's going on, not the children, not the parents. Not even the teachers. And most disappointing to me, the rich and successful people in this country don't know what's going on. They hang around on the sidelines watching the Titanic sink. Thanks, fellas.</span></p>
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<p></p>....MORE ABOUT READING, the most important topic of alltag:schoolleadership20.com,2023-09-29:1990010:BlogPost:3883382023-09-29T01:51:27.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">THE MEANING OF THE LUCY CALKINS FIASCO</span></p>
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<p><strong><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/09/the_meaning_of_the_lucy_calkins_fiasco.html">https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/09/the_meaning_of_the_lucy_calkins_fiasco.html</a></strong></p>
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<p>Please, everyone read this and confront what it's saying. This woman created a new version of Whole Word, i.e., another way to sell sight-words to unsuspecting victims. Basically…</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">THE MEANING OF THE LUCY CALKINS FIASCO</span></p>
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<p>Please, everyone read this and confront what it's saying. This woman created a new version of Whole Word, i.e., another way to sell sight-words to unsuspecting victims. Basically all you have to do is promise the public a whole lot of new bells and whistles and then go full speed ahead with sight-words, more sight-words.</p>
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<p>Lucy was the queen of sight-words for 20+ years and probably that means another 20 million functional illiterates, which just happens to be the same problem that Rudolf Flesch wrote his book about in 1955. That is, Why Johnny Can't Read. Because the schools conspired to eliminate phonics.</p>
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<p>If you now search Google on the topics of reading, literacy, etc., you will find the most amazing assortment of mismatched ideas, jargon, theories, PhD weirdness. Whereas, with phonics everything is simple. Just teach the kids that letters represent sounds. If they don't know that, their education is basically over.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/09/the_meaning_of_the_lucy_calkins_fiasco.html">https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/09/the_meaning_of_the_lucy_calkins_fiasco.html</a></p>Here's why the public schools are so bad....tag:schoolleadership20.com,2023-09-04:1990010:BlogPost:3878182023-09-04T00:39:15.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
<p>Going back almost 90 years, the hard left wanted to use the public schools as a way to change the world.</p>
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<p>Roughly in 1921, sight-words were forced into the public schools, and we've had nothing but decline ever since. (The professors knew it would flop thanks to Dr. Samuel Orton's research.)</p>
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<p>Now, we have reached a stage of general bewilderment. The Education Establishment cannot tell the truth about anything that it does. They want dumbing down. Can they say…</p>
<p>Going back almost 90 years, the hard left wanted to use the public schools as a way to change the world.</p>
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<p>Roughly in 1921, sight-words were forced into the public schools, and we've had nothing but decline ever since. (The professors knew it would flop thanks to Dr. Samuel Orton's research.)</p>
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<p>Now, we have reached a stage of general bewilderment. The Education Establishment cannot tell the truth about anything that it does. They want dumbing down. Can they say that? No they have to talk about all the wonderful new improvements in 21st century literacy... Blah blah blah</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="r-b88u0q"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Don’t Accept Further Nonsense About Reading.</span></span> <span class="r-b88u0q" style="font-size: 12pt;">It's Time To Fight Back.</span></span></p>
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<p><span>Note that the general decline throughout K-12 is especially tragic in one area: literacy. The m</span><span class="r-36ujnk r-b88u0q">ost common thing that child</span><span>ren say nowadays is: <em>I don't read. I hate books</em>. Boys especially say this, and this seems to be part of the war against men. Millions still graduate from high school and get a job but fewer and fewer can read for pleasure. A lot of bad habits have been inculcated, particularly a tendency to guess every time you don't grasp a word immediately....</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">THE WEAKEST SPOT IN ALL OF EDUCATION IS READING. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span>Teach it in a stupid way, and children are consigned to failure. Culture and civilization atrophy. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span>You'll have a real mess on your hands, like the one we have now.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span>Teach it properly and children will routinely proceed to writing, geography, history, science, and the arts.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Children in public schools are often</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>We can so do much better.</b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>Principles and Proposals by…</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Children in public schools are often</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>We can so do much better.</b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Americans should have great public schools.</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>We could so easily have them.</b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>CODA: most reformers and professors of education imply they have a silver bullet or a miracle cure. Use their theories and methods, then you will have universal success. Consider this: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">every bad idea</span> in our schools was marketed in exactly this way. Personally I don't believe in miracle cures.</b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>My approach is to analyze each proposal in terms of how successful it is. We have to look at the failures and expose the flaws, so schools can defend themselves against fraud, propaganda, and deceitful jargon.</b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>I think of K-12 as a crime scene, and ask why are there so many millions of injured people? We have to do detective work. I've been doing this for 30 years and want to report it's very enjoyable!</b></span></p>
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<p></p>LET'S FIX EDUCATION podcast reaches 100 episodestag:schoolleadership20.com,2023-06-02:1990010:BlogPost:3868832023-06-02T00:30:00.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
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<p><strong>For connoisseurs of educational chicanery</strong>. My podcast is published every Wednesday.</p>
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<p>If you've ever wondered why, with our vast budgets, our K-12 does not seem to be very good, here are the reasons.</p>
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<p>My short answer is that our education establishment became obsessed with social engineering, with less and less interest in academic achievement. Typically, the ideologues were out of step with the public, which was still very interested in…</p>
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<p><strong>For connoisseurs of educational chicanery</strong>. My podcast is published every Wednesday.</p>
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<p>If you've ever wondered why, with our vast budgets, our K-12 does not seem to be very good, here are the reasons.</p>
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<p>My short answer is that our education establishment became obsessed with social engineering, with less and less interest in academic achievement. Typically, the ideologues were out of step with the public, which was still very interested in academics. So there's the motivation for mediocrity. Next you should understand the methods used to dumb down schools. There is a lot of trickery and disingenuousness in K-12 education.</p>
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<p><strong>Please check out a few episodes and then you'll know if this podcast is for you. </strong><a href="https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com">https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com</a><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11259084093?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11259084093?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="300" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p>In addition to the podcast, I have my main site improve-education.org (now being rebuilt), graphic videos on YouTube, 3,000 answers on Quora, 150 of my best articles are in archives/American Thinker, my book <strong><em>Saving K-12</em></strong> explains the education malaise., etc.</p>
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<p>In general I do what I can to reach out to the public. That's my goal, to give the public ways to fight back against a very aggressive Education Establishment. Typically I'm sorry I don't have more money to promote my work. So I've joined a gofund me operation. The following article explaining this decision gives a lot of information about my different venues and what my message is and why.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"SUPPORT EDUCATION REFORM" ... <strong>It's a good read: <a href="http://spot.fund/81hpnse">http://spot.fund/81hpnse</a></strong></span></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>An act of war...historical landmark dated 1983tag:schoolleadership20.com,2023-03-23:1990010:BlogPost:3860452023-03-23T23:38:42.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
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<p><font size="3"><b>Episode 90 of Let's Fix Education (a short podcast and transcript) looks back 40 years at this important moment in history.…</b></font></p>
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<p><font size="3"><b>Episode 90 of Let's Fix Education (a short podcast and transcript) looks back 40 years at this important moment in history.</b></font></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font size="3"><b>There is also an announcement of a new novel titled <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Art and Beauty,</em></span></b></font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font size="3"><b>of interest to all those who enjoy crime fiction. </b></font><b>Manhattan. When art galleries and model agencies were the most glamorous businesses on the planet.</b></span></p>the Truth about K-12 and what we can do about it...tag:schoolleadership20.com,2023-02-01:1990010:BlogPost:3846342023-02-01T00:04:36.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Peruse "Let's Fix Education"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A weekly podcast for education connoisseurs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What's really going on in K-12...?</span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Episode 81: <em>Teacher reveals how dysfunctional K-12 really is…</em></span></h3>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A weekly podcast for education connoisseurs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What's really going on in K-12...?</span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Episode 81: <em>Teacher reveals how dysfunctional K-12 really is</em></span></h3>
<p><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/12057531">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/12057531</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Episode 80: <em>George Carlin and the Truth about American education</em></strong></span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/12019209">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/12019209</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Episode 2: <em>How I Became An Education Reformer</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/8773138">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/8773138</a></span></p>Let's Fix Education, Episode 76: Dyslexia is a Fancy Word for Sabotage (podcast with transcript)tag:schoolleadership20.com,2022-12-15:1990010:BlogPost:3836752022-12-15T02:30:00.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>QED: sight-words cause dyslexia and illiteracy. There's no way out,</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Episode 76: <strong><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/11868320" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dyslexia is a Fancy Word for Sabotage </a> </strong>Wednesday, December 14, 2022</span></p>
<p><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here's the bottom line: phonics is essential, because it’s a mnemonic device for dealing with a huge language like English, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you don't have the phonics sounds to remind you how to pronounce the words, you will struggle and stall.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span>College students need 100,000+ sight-words. Only a grad-school memory could go over 10,000.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>If you agree that we should dumb down the American population, you will surely love sight-words.<br/></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Podcast: <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/11868320">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/11868320</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">----------------------------------------------------<br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFLLnRWROQ" target="_self">Strange Truth</a> exposes dyslexia hysteria:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFLLnRWROQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFLLnRWROQ</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em> </em>Wednesday, Nov. 23, '22</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Best Gift For Smart People—</b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b><em>''Saving K-12"</em></b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Most books about education are boring. So let's announce emphatically: this is a well-written, lively book, and fun to…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Most books about education are boring. So let's announce emphatically: this is a well-written, lively book, and fun to read. I think of K-12 as a crime scene and my job is to describe who did what to whom.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/11739386">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/11739386</a></span></p>
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<p></p>I have always said that Constructivism should be called Destructivismtag:schoolleadership20.com,2022-10-21:1990010:BlogPost:3832332022-10-21T02:18:34.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">First of all, it prohibits teaching...you know, that's what they did in schools until Constructivism came along.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>Listen up, peasants!! There will be no more direct instruction!...</em> Isn't that idiotic on the face of it?…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Constructivism has been a huge fad for decades. I denounce it as much as possible.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">First of all, it prohibits teaching...you know, that's what they did in schools until Constructivism came along.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>Listen up, peasants!! There will be no more direct instruction!...</em> Isn't that idiotic on the face of it?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Oh, there are lots of reasons for hating Constructivism but perhaps the main one is the hardest one to explain. There is a smug condescending pompous tone throughout Constructivism. Professors of education know best. When did <em><strong>that</strong></em> ever happen?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There is the suggestion that the people pushing Constructivism have tapped into a cosmic vein way above your understanding. It's genius!!! That's all you need to know.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Don't let the experts ponzi-scheme you to death. Read this article and you'll be able to defend yourself.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/10/constructivism_is_dead_good_riddance_to_k12_rubbish.html">https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/10/constructivism_is_dead_good_riddance_to_k12_rubbish.html</a></span></p>Dark Depressing Depths in K-12tag:schoolleadership20.com,2022-07-27:1990010:BlogPost:3817222022-07-27T22:06:11.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">K-12 will remain hopeless unless we deal with the fundamental flaws and fallacies. Many schools are like Chernobyl, poisoned at the root. <em>Let's Fix Education</em>, this podcast, specializes in studying the difficult topics.</span></p>
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<p><strong>Episode 56: Russians attack American</strong> K-12 (Wednesday, July 27, 2022) —-…</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">K-12 will remain hopeless unless we deal with the fundamental flaws and fallacies. Many schools are like Chernobyl, poisoned at the root. <em>Let's Fix Education</em>, this podcast, specializes in studying the difficult topics.</span></p>
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<p><strong>Episode 56: Russians attack American</strong> K-12 (Wednesday, July 27, 2022) —- <span><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/11033967">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/11033967</a></span></p>
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<p><b>Episode 55: What Is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Not</span> A Scam?</b> (Wednesday, July 20, 2022) —- <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/10990499"><span><b>https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/10990499</b></span></a></p>
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<p><b>Episode 54: Social Emotive Mumbo-Jumbo</b> (Wednesday, July 13, 2022) —- <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/10990499">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/10990499</a></p>
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<p><b>Let's Fix Education has been published every Wednesday for more than a year.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></p>
<p><b>Now an Apple Podcast. Spotify. Etc.</b></p>
<p><b>Subscribe and share.</b></p>Interested in robots, AI, science-fiction, Elon Musk, crime, mystery, speculative fiction, and/or romance???tag:schoolleadership20.com,2022-05-12:1990010:BlogPost:3804602022-05-12T02:30:00.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
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</div>A quick way to fix the public schoolstag:schoolleadership20.com,2022-04-27:1990010:BlogPost:3801102022-04-27T20:12:54.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1. Avoid all the psychosocial innovations, such as SEL, CRT, and many more. These things do not give children the foundational knowledge they need. These things are essentially propaganda.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">2) When basic knowledge is taught, it's rendered useless by incoherent sequencing and dull…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1. Avoid all the psychosocial innovations, such as SEL, CRT, and many more. These things do not give children the foundational knowledge they need. These things are essentially propaganda.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">2) When basic knowledge is taught, it's rendered useless by incoherent sequencing and dull presentation.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Episode 43</strong> <strong>suggests ways to find excitement in any topic.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/1oY7JEVOKs9i0BjcnzS6Ao">https://open.spotify.com/episode/1oY7JEVOKs9i0BjcnzS6Ao</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span>Episode 43:</span> <b>There are always better ways to teach everything</b><span>.</span></span></p>Dumb is official policy in K-12tag:schoolleadership20.com,2022-04-13:1990010:BlogPost:3802312022-04-13T21:56:47.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Episode 41 explains</strong> that the decline in American education started with John Dewey. He wanted children to be rearranged, transformed, and socially engineered. He didn't want them to know all that much. So, the guy universally called the father of American education, is actually the number one saboteur of American education. Dewey's ghost roams our classrooms.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Episode 41 explains</strong> that the decline in American education started with John Dewey. He wanted children to be rearranged, transformed, and socially engineered. He didn't want them to know all that much. So, the guy universally called the father of American education, is actually the number one saboteur of American education. Dewey's ghost roams our classrooms.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>News One: <em>Let's Fix Education</em> is now an Apple podcast.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>News Two: <em>Frankie</em> will be published May 10. To learn more about Frankie, visit <a href="http://Frankie.zone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frankie.zone</a></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">podcast: <a href="https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com">https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">..</span></p>Public schools teach too little. The result is pervasive ignorance.tag:schoolleadership20.com,2022-03-30:1990010:BlogPost:3796022022-03-30T22:23:28.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The point of going to school is to learn the basic information you need to thrive in life. A lot of this is very simple stuff. Easy for children to learn, if anyone would bother to teach them. I argue that knowledge is priority one. See Episode 39.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The point of going to school is to learn the basic information you need to thrive in life. A lot of this is very simple stuff. Easy for children to learn, if anyone would bother to teach them. I argue that knowledge is priority one. See Episode 39.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com">https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em>Frankie</em> is an upcoming novel of interest to readers who like mysteries, sci-fi, suspense. <a href="http://frankie.zone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frankie.zone</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10249742852?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10249742852?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="200" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>Why is math so difficult for our schools?tag:schoolleadership20.com,2022-03-23:1990010:BlogPost:3795702022-03-23T21:31:26.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kids can't seem to learn math. The teachers don't seem to know math. National scores continue to fall. What exactly is the problem?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Can you handle the truth? Clearly, the Education Establishment does not want success in math. So they sabotage it at every opportunity.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font size="4">New Math, 1964, seems to me to prove this assertion, as explained in…</font></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kids can't seem to learn math. The teachers don't seem to know math. National scores continue to fall. What exactly is the problem?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Can you handle the truth? Clearly, the Education Establishment does not want success in math. So they sabotage it at every opportunity.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font size="4">New Math, 1964, seems to me to prove this assertion, as explained in this short podcast titled <em>Mutilating Math</em>.</font></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com">https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com</a></span></p>
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<p><font size="4"><strong>Memo for serious readers.</strong> <em>Frankie</em> will appear soon. A unique mystery. For more info visit <a href="http://frankie.zone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frankie.zone</a></font></p>Why is math so difficult for our schools?tag:schoolleadership20.com,2022-03-23:1990010:BlogPost:3795692022-03-23T21:31:18.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kids can't seem to learn math. The teachers don't seem to know math. National scores continue to fall. What exactly is the problem?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Can you handle the truth? Clearly, the Education Establishment does not want success in math. So they sabotage it at every opportunity.</span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font size="4">New Math, 1964, seems to me to prove this assertion, as explained in…</font></span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kids can't seem to learn math. The teachers don't seem to know math. National scores continue to fall. What exactly is the problem?</span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Can you handle the truth? Clearly, the Education Establishment does not want success in math. So they sabotage it at every opportunity.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font size="4">New Math, 1964, seems to me to prove this assertion, as explained in this short podcast titled <em>Mutilating Math</em>.</font></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com">https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com</a></span></p>
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<p><font size="4"><strong>Memo for serious readers.</strong> <em>Frankie</em> will appear soon. A unique mystery. For more info visit <a href="http://frankie.zone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frankie.zone</a></font></p>Public schools are getting dumber? Does anyone care?tag:schoolleadership20.com,2022-03-10:1990010:BlogPost:3793132022-03-10T03:56:14.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> I think the dumbing down of public schools is the biggest problem we have. This would be easy to fix.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Apparently, our education establishment believes the creed: <em>make them dumb, our time will come.</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This decline in general intelligence leads to lots of collateral damage. People hardly have common sense,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> never…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> I think the dumbing down of public schools is the biggest problem we have. This would be easy to fix.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Apparently, our education establishment believes the creed: <em>make them dumb, our time will come.</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This decline in general intelligence leads to lots of collateral damage. People hardly have common sense,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> never mind critical thinking.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">My suggestion is we must all look bravely into the abyss, feel personally how bad things are, and then maybe you will want to do something about it.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><em>See Episode 36 of <strong>Let's Fix Education</strong>: does anyone care our schools have been dumbed down?</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/website/background/edit">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/website/background/edit</a></span></p>Public schools are getting dumber? Does anyone care?tag:schoolleadership20.com,2022-03-10:1990010:BlogPost:3795092022-03-10T03:30:00.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> I think the dumbing down of public schools is the biggest problem we have. This would be easy to fix.</span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Apparently, our education establishment believes the creed: <em>make them dumb, our time will come.</em></span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This decline in general intelligence leads to lots of collateral damage. People hardly have common sense,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> never…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> I think the dumbing down of public schools is the biggest problem we have. This would be easy to fix.</span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Apparently, our education establishment believes the creed: <em>make them dumb, our time will come.</em></span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This decline in general intelligence leads to lots of collateral damage. People hardly have common sense,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> never mind critical thinking.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">My suggestion is we must all look bravely into the abyss, feel personally how bad things are, and then maybe you will want to do something about it.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><em>See Episode 36 of <strong>Let's Fix Education</strong>: does anyone care our schools have been dumbed down?</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a href="https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com">https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/website/background/edit"></a></span></p>Fundamental truth about education. Please read.tag:schoolleadership20.com,2022-03-04:1990010:BlogPost:3793712022-03-04T01:25:30.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If schools are run properly, children will be full of confidence and enthusiasm.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If children are morose and failing, you know the people in charge are incompetent.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">See Episode 35 on this podcast. <strong>Hope versus Hopelessness.</strong> It often seems to me that schools are organized to produce hopelessness. That's a terrible thought, isn't…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If schools are run properly, children will be full of confidence and enthusiasm.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If children are morose and failing, you know the people in charge are incompetent.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">See Episode 35 on this podcast. <strong>Hope versus Hopelessness.</strong> It often seems to me that schools are organized to produce hopelessness. That's a terrible thought, isn't it?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com">https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com</a></span></p>Memorization--pro and contag:schoolleadership20.com,2022-02-16:1990010:BlogPost:3791322022-02-16T23:11:30.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ed Establishment worships <strong>rote memorization</strong> <strong>if it suits their social engineering goals.</strong> For example, forcing sight-words into the curriculum. One bad idea sustains another bad idea; together you get the crime of the century.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Note that in every other situation</strong>, professors of ed endlessly denounce memorization!!!…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ed Establishment worships <strong>rote memorization</strong> <strong>if it suits their social engineering goals.</strong> For example, forcing sight-words into the curriculum. One bad idea sustains another bad idea; together you get the crime of the century.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Note that in every other situation</strong>, professors of ed endlessly denounce memorization!!!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The contradiction is obvious to all.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Episode 33, short podcast reflects on why memorization is often essential. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/10082673">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/10082673</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(PS: <em>Let's Fix Education</em> explains the deeper problems and possibilities in K-12. Weekly.)</span></p>Memorization--pro and contag:schoolleadership20.com,2022-02-16:1990010:BlogPost:3792272022-02-16T23:11:25.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ed Establishment worships <strong>rote memorization</strong> <strong>if it suits their social engineering goals.</strong> For example, forcing sight-words into the curriculum. One bad idea sustains another bad idea; together you get the crime of the century.</span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Note that in every other situation</strong>, professors of ed endlessly denounce memorization!!!…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ed Establishment worships <strong>rote memorization</strong> <strong>if it suits their social engineering goals.</strong> For example, forcing sight-words into the curriculum. One bad idea sustains another bad idea; together you get the crime of the century.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Note that in every other situation</strong>, professors of ed endlessly denounce memorization!!!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The contradiction is obvious to all.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Episode 33, short podcast reflects on why memorization is often essential. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/10082673">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/10082673</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(PS: <em>Let's Fix Education</em> explains the deeper problems and possibilities in K-12. Weekly.)</span></p>Education Elite considered as Imperialists and Colonialiststag:schoolleadership20.com,2022-02-10:1990010:BlogPost:3790132022-02-10T00:06:56.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Left likes to vilify colonialism and colonialists, people who take over other people’s territory. But what else is our Education Establishment but modern-day conquistadors? They think they are entitled to rule over our schools.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Short podcast explains the matrix.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Episode 32: Education Elite are Imperialists and…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Left likes to vilify colonialism and colonialists, people who take over other people’s territory. But what else is our Education Establishment but modern-day conquistadors? They think they are entitled to rule over our schools.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Short podcast explains the matrix.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Episode 32: Education Elite are Imperialists and Colonialists (Feb. 22)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><a href="https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com">https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com</a></strong></span></p>Emergency memo to teachers: please return to real readingtag:schoolleadership20.com,2022-01-19:1990010:BlogPost:3784212022-01-19T22:41:35.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong> Illiteracy is still the big problem.</strong> The education establishment foisted a phony method on the American public. That would be sight-words, an instructional method that guarantees most kids will never learn to read. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The podcast (and transcript) introduces three experts, all women accustomed to working with teachers:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Nora…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong> Illiteracy is still the big problem.</strong> The education establishment foisted a phony method on the American public. That would be sight-words, an instructional method that guarantees most kids will never learn to read. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The podcast (and transcript) introduces three experts, all women accustomed to working with teachers:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Nora Chahbazi, <em>Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction</em> / <em>EBLI</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Emily Hanford, <em>The Science of Reading</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Denise Eide, <em>The Logic of English</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I don't know these women but their work has impressed me over the years. They are very passionate about making sure children can read. I encourage teachers to do their own homework and pick the one that makes the most sense. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The main thing is to stop putting up with inferior methods. Escape from the swamp.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/9910408">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/9910408</a></span></p>If you're serious about making better schools, consider this...tag:schoolleadership20.com,2021-12-17:1990010:BlogPost:3781642021-12-17T01:30:00.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">HERE'S WHAT PROMPTED SOME BIG THOUGHTS ABOUT K-12:</span></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I read an article by a professor about rhetoric, communication, grammar, and such. It hit me that a person, to understand…</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">HERE'S WHAT PROMPTED SOME BIG THOUGHTS ABOUT K-12:</span></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I read an article by a professor about rhetoric, communication, grammar, and such. It hit me that a person, to understand anything the professor is talking about, would need a substantial foundation. That's what K-12 used to provide.</span></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My epiphany was that the bottom is dropping out from under the younger students. They are kept busy learning nothing. Increasingly, the new information they hear each day is going to echo for a few seconds in their brains, then be gone forever.</span></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>--which led to the following thoughts:</em></span></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am more convinced that the primary problem, just after illiteracy and innumeracy, is a pervasive lack of basic knowledge. Children don't have anything to build on. They don't have the facts they need to understand what's being taught. I don't think the schools have any idea how bad the situation is, or they don't want to let the public know. You see, an average person after 10-15 years of going to the movies and watching television will pick up a lot of this essential knowledge. I'm talking now about the kids in elementary school just starting out. These kids know very little because very little is taught. Memorization is scorned. Coherence is neglected. Making connections between one fact and another is not emphasized.</span></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So let me dramatize the deficiency that happens dozens of times each day.. The teacher says, "The Amazon River is 4000 miles long.” An adult can make some sense of it. But the second-grader does not know what the Amazon is, does not have any associations with the name except the mail-order place. The young person does not know what a river is, not in any real sense. This kid does not know what 4000 miles is, not in any real sense. They have not been taught any geography, not any relative sizes. The teacher is speaking into a vacuum.</span></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>So the practical matter is that even if the school is trying to do a good job, they probably have no idea how low they have to go. Everything must be presented in the most elemental way, with plenty of context, so the students can get 100% of what is taught. Not enough people are bothering with this now.</strong></span></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(I'm already working on an article about this matter; I have the sense it might be possible to create a small book that would teach children everything they need to know. <strong>The secret is to start at the very beginning</strong>, whatever the subject is. If the foundation is in place, the children can gallop along thereafter. But our schools don't teach reading and arithmetic, not sufficiently. And then they try to teach facts and knowledge to children who might be thought of as suffering from amnesia. I don't know if my project will go anywhere <strong>so I urge everyone to experiment. Create your own <em>Start Here</em> projects. Ask the question, how would you teach X to children who have been in a coma for 10 years, and now they're ready to be educated.) How would you do it????</strong></span></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><font size="3"><b>I'll bet you will be amazed to find that there are a lot of details you have been ignoring. Kids <em>should</em> know this stuff, you were probably thinking, so you didn't have to bother. But if you start to bother with that simple stuff, you will find a whole class come to life because now the kids will get everything. </b></font></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><font size="3"><b>Of course, you'll realize that you shouldn't waste time on social engineering, social emotive learning, and all the other things <span style="text-decoration: underline;">that don't contain any facts</span>. Facts are the whole point. Facts and the interconnections between facts.</b></font></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><font size="3">good metaphor: Brain cells with billions of connections. It's a sort of loam.</font></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><font size="3"><b><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9918755061?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9918755061?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="338" class="align-center" height="169"/>ADDENDUM:</a></b></font></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><strong><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9918755061?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><font size="3">To give a young student the full meaning of "The Amazon River is 4000 miles long," you would show video as you define <em>river,</em> mentioning the long connection with bridges, boundaries, and transportation; then another five minutes on the great rivers of the world and how unexpectedly wide and long they are, for example 4000+ miles Is longer than from San Francisco to Chicago to Washington DC. Show this on a map of the US. At this point the students are ready to hear additional information about the Amazon....... And finally the children would be ready to hear the punchline: the Amazon is the only river that does not have a bridge. I remember when I was first told that. I was amazed. Imagine a river so big and so unpredictable and sprawling that it would be folly to build a bridge over it.</font></a></strong></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"></p>Reading Wars -- what's that all about???????tag:schoolleadership20.com,2021-11-18:1990010:BlogPost:3773022021-11-18T00:10:36.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Everyone in education needs to know what the Reading Wars are all about. Here's a quick summary. Episode 21 on <em><strong>Let's Fix Education</strong></em>. 10 minutes. Share and subscribe.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com">https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Everyone in education needs to know what the Reading Wars are all about. Here's a quick summary. Episode 21 on <em><strong>Let's Fix Education</strong></em>. 10 minutes. Share and subscribe.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com">https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com</a></span></p>Here's why a liberal arts education is good for everyone.tag:schoolleadership20.com,2021-11-03:1990010:BlogPost:3773452021-11-03T00:51:57.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">All my life I am primarily a writer. But until a few years ago I would never have thought to recommend my sort of education to anyone else.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The typical literary education seems to be putting too much emphasis on famous works and famous authors and the details thereof.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>But the main activity in a liberal arts education is analysis of text.…</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">All my life I am primarily a writer. But until a few years ago I would never have thought to recommend my sort of education to anyone else.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The typical literary education seems to be putting too much emphasis on famous works and famous authors and the details thereof.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>But the main activity in a liberal arts education is analysis of text. This is the central activity in virtually all things that educated people do.</strong> And where do students learn to do this except in literary work?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A lot of children never learn to read fluently. And then to top it off, the kids are never asked to really analyze anything. So we have students who don't know anything factual and they can't perform basic intellectual activities. Seriously, if you care about the country, we've got to start reversing this nonsense.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font size="3">Short podcast explains this perspective:</font></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/9440257">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/9440257</a></span></p>Why our public schools are mired in mediocrity...tag:schoolleadership20.com,2021-10-20:1990010:BlogPost:3764702021-10-20T22:25:32.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For thousands of years, virtually all educators were devoted to teaching facts and knowledge. So-called Progressive educators seemed to realize they did better when the students and the population were relatively ignorant.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So K-12 education became a hustle where schools pretended to teach traditional subjects, but in fact undermined that teaching. And that's why Charlotte Iserbyt coined the phrase <em>"the…</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For thousands of years, virtually all educators were devoted to teaching facts and knowledge. So-called Progressive educators seemed to realize they did better when the students and the population were relatively ignorant.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So K-12 education became a hustle where schools pretended to teach traditional subjects, but in fact undermined that teaching. And that's why Charlotte Iserbyt coined the phrase <em>"the deliberate dumbing down of America."</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This short podcast explains why so much that seems incomprehensible in K-12 education is actually quite logical to the people in charge.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Who Can Control the Control Freaks?</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://player.fm/series/lets-fix-education/episode-17-who-can-control-the-control-freaks-oct-20-21">https://player.fm/series/lets-fix-education/episode-17-who-can-control-the-control-freaks-oct-20-21</a></span></p>Why was Ken Robinson such a phenom?tag:schoolleadership20.com,2021-10-07:1990010:BlogPost:3762952021-10-07T21:17:49.000ZBruce Deitrick Pricehttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/BruceDeitrickPrice
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our education establishment is constantly telling us that some new gimmick is a new plateau, a new level for education.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Robinson died recently and there were a lot of articles about him, many of them negative. I was surprised as the press on him was enthusiastic for many years.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So here's a short introduction to why I was always suspicious of him, and why…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our education establishment is constantly telling us that some new gimmick is a new plateau, a new level for education.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Robinson died recently and there were a lot of articles about him, many of them negative. I was surprised as the press on him was enthusiastic for many years.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So here's a short introduction to why I was always suspicious of him, and why some other people were negative. This story tells us a lot about the entire field of K-12 education.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a href="https://player.fm/series/lets-fix-education/episode-15-sir-ken-robinson-was-wrong-and-destructive-october-6-2021">https://player.fm/series/lets-fix-education/episode-15-sir-ken-robinson-was-wrong-and-destructive-october-6-2021</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font size="5"><em>Let's Fix Education, podcast, about 10 minutes. Please share and subscribe.</em></font></span></p>