Bruce Deitrick Price's Blog – February 2014 Archive (5)

Teachers, Facilitators, Babysitters-- why do these job descriptions seem to be merging?

There was once upon a time a person called a school teacher, who was very well educated, who was steely, who took control of the class, a veritable sage on a stage.

 Well, you can kiss all that good-by.

 As part of its general disdain for education and indeed civilization, our Education Establishment has waged a war against the very concept of a teacher.

1) As chronicled in "Ed School Follies" 20 years ago (see my review on Amazon), ed schools got…

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Added by Bruce Deitrick Price on February 24, 2014 at 7:06pm — No Comments

Everyone should know who Mona McNee is...

Mona McNee, who lives in the UK, is a life-long phonics advocate. She is almost 90. She is still fighting!

 Mona is the author of "The Great Reading Disaster," which explains the UK situation, which is  perhaps even more pathetic and dismal than the USA situation.

 She is also the creator of the "Step-by-Step" reading program, which you can get on the Internet for free.

Her story, and her beliefs, are an excellent way for people to…

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Added by Bruce Deitrick Price on February 20, 2014 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Join the Resistance

After World War II, all the people who had joined the Resistance were hailed as heroes. Everyone else was considered a weakling and/or a dupe.

If we ever win the Education Wars (by that I mean, if ever sensible pragmatic education practices become the norm), we're going to look back at the Education Establishment we have now as subversives and greedy careerists.

Well, that’s my sense of it.

Accordingly, I’m always…

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Added by Bruce Deitrick Price on February 15, 2014 at 7:29pm — No Comments

How to fix public schools in 4 easy lessons

Most articles about education argue for this or that alleged cure-all: more money, greater parental involvement, longer hours, better instruction for teachers, clearer “standards,” universal pre-K, a community that really cares, etc., etc.

Some articles can go on for pages without mentioning the immediate things we should do if we want better schools ASAP.

(Suppose a…

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Added by Bruce Deitrick Price on February 11, 2014 at 8:56pm — No Comments

New book: "Credentialed to Destroy, how and why education became a weapon"

For those who think our school system has gotten off track by embracing a multitude of failed methods, I have some good news.

There is a very aggressive new book that names names, deconstructs theories, and explains that the worst sort of people are taking over our schools and our economy. The author's message is that we have to understand what's going on and stop it, otherwise all the lights are going to be turned off. Specifically, everyone needs to…

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Added by Bruce Deitrick Price on February 1, 2014 at 2:27pm — No Comments

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