ARTICLES BY BRUCE DEITRICK PRICE

Summary: An excellent way to learn about the Reading Wars You'll meet one of the first and greatest fighters in that war

Summary: Sight Words and Dolch Words are the problem, not the answer An intellectual virus called Whole Word infected our public schools starting around 1932

Summary: Law enforcement officials should take a special interest in literacy Why

Summary: Public schools said goodbye to teaching knowledge, hello to social engineering Kids grow up ignorant and empty, feeling like foreigners in their own country

Summary: Article notes disturbing similarities between Communist “biology” and American “education” In mid-20th-century, the Communist Party wanted to believe that the environment could alter a species

Summary: Improve-Educationorg is a unique site with 60 lively articles on a range of academic topics

I suspect the national terror alert should be upped a few colors The country's economy, productivity, and scientific dominance are under attack

“It’s one of the more curious stories in American education,” notes Bruce Price, founder of Improve-Educationorg

I believe it’s helpful for people to evaluate their own education, and reflect on what worked and didn’t work Then you have a solid personal basis for judging new ideas and what is going on in local schools

It’s not enough that the Education Establishment of this country has dropped tons of stupid policies on us No, they have done something else almost as diabolical

Listen To Me, You Rich Successful People In Your Big Houses: I know, I know, you don’t want to think about all the bad public schools out there Nothing to do with you, right

(Summary: the big question is why the public schools waste so much time on weird non-academic topics, most of them hostile to traditional beliefs The real witch in this story may be the Education Establishment

In all the comments I see left on internet articles about education, two themes dominate: 1) The first is, average Americans have no idea how bad the public schools are The Education Establishment has done a brilliant job at PR and misinformation

(Summary: some schools would rather have a tornado pass by than actually teach anything It’s this country’s number-one medical problem: brains rarely used, now atrophied

The August 2 cover of TIME magazine screamed: “The Case Against Summer Vacation” With this subtitle: “We romanticize it

Learning styles--something that hardly existed 25 years ago--now seems to be a fixed part of American education Do you ever suspect that maybe we’ve let this thing go too far

The only thing most Americans agree on is that the public schools are mediocre As to why this happened and what we should do next, there is a total bedlam of beliefs and opinions

For a few years I thought the worst possible gimmick in education was Whole Word, basically a device to make sure kids don't learn to read In the last few months, the clamor grew about Core Standards and National Standards, and I started to focus on arithmetic

Starting in 1975, Pol Pot and his Communist revolutionaries killed almost 2,000,000 Cambodians, out of a total population of 5,000,000 Why

This country has a bizarre and unprecedented problem “The longer American children are in school, the worse they perform compared to their international peers,” according to McKinsey and Company, management consultants

Two or three years ago, if I tried to tell people that the problems in the public schools should be blamed on the bosses at the top, that is, the Education Establishment, I didn’t get too far People would object, what about the unconcerned parents

I read The Pledge to America with growing respect It’s written clearly and directly

Summary: Schools don’t teach facts, apparently because the Education Establishment prefers empty-headed kids who can be told what to think But kids need facts, want facts, and can learn facts

Summary: when you understand why educators scorn geography, you know all the reasons why American public schools keep getting dumber It’s easy to point out that public schools don’t teach much geography

Summary: even liberal media are starting to realize that we are sliding into an educational swamp, most of it caused by liberal educators Okay, liberals, everything’s cool