Joan Dunn taught in Brooklyn Public schools for a few years around 1953. She recognized at that time that our public schools were compromised and probably finished.

She wrote a book titled Retreat From Learning: Why Teachers Can't Teach (available on Archive.org.)

This is not a research paper. This is not a reconstruction of what happened more than 70 years ago. Joan Dunn was there, as an eager young teacher, very smart, highly idealistic and…

LET'S  FIX EDUCATION,  Episode 140,  Bruce Deitrick Price



    



The Legacy of Rita Kramer (1929-2023)

and the Embarrassment Factor





In 1990 Rita Kramer toured the country to study the best ed schools. She was reporting on education for ABC,…

Episode 127 of "Let's Fix Education"

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American K-12 drifts ever downward. If you doubt that, this podcast is for you. 

(Spoken or transcript. America needs to hear/read this. Pass it on.)

For years I’ve claimed there are few good ideas left in K-12. The good ideas have been…

THE MEANING OF THE LUCY CALKINS FIASCO

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/09/the_meaning_of_the_lucy_calkins_fiasco.html

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…

Going back almost 90 years, the hard left wanted to use the public schools as a way to change the world.

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.)

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…

Children in public schools are often

miserable and don't learn much.

We can so do much better.

Principles and Proposals by…

For connoisseurs of educational chicanery. My podcast is published every Wednesday.

If you've ever wondered why, with our vast budgets, our K-12 does not seem to be very good, here are the reasons.

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…

In 1983 Congress declared that our schools were mediocre. The congressional report was titled A Nation at Risk.

Episode 90 of Let's Fix Education (a short podcast and transcript) looks back 40 years at this important moment in history.…

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What's really going on in K-12...?

Episode 81: Teacher reveals how dysfunctional K-12 really is…

QED: sight-words cause dyslexia and illiteracy. There's no way out,

If you want to improve K-12, you have to understand this equation.

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 Wednesday, Nov. 23, '22

Episode #73 (podcast 7 minutes) about:

Best Gift For Smart People—''Saving K-12"

Most books about education are boring. So let's announce emphatically: this is a well-written, lively book, and fun to…

Constructivism has been a huge fad for decades. I denounce it as much as possible.

First of all, it prohibits teaching...you know, that's what they did in schools until Constructivism came along.

Listen up, peasants!! There will be no more direct instruction!... Isn't that idiotic on the face of it?…

K-12 will remain hopeless unless we deal with the fundamental flaws and fallacies. Many schools are like Chernobyl, poisoned at the root. Let's Fix Education, this podcast, specializes in studying the difficult topics.

Episode 56: Russians attack American K-12 (Wednesday, July 27, 2022) —-…

Stop doing the two most destructive things now common:

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.

2) When basic knowledge is taught, it's rendered useless by incoherent sequencing and dull…

Episode 41 explains 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.

News One:…

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.

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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?

Can you handle the truth? Clearly, the Education Establishment does not want success in math. So they sabotage it at every opportunity.

New Math, 1964, seems to me to prove this assertion, as explained in…

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?

Can you handle the truth? Clearly, the Education Establishment does not want success in math. So they sabotage it at every opportunity.

New Math, 1964, seems to me to prove this assertion, as explained in…

 I think the dumbing down of public schools is the biggest problem we have. This would be easy to fix.

Apparently, our education establishment believes the creed: make them dumb, our time will come.

This decline in general intelligence leads to lots of collateral damage. People hardly have common sense, never…