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).
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Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
Episode 76: Dyslexia is a Fancy Word for Sabotage (Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Episode 76: Dyslexia is a Fancy Word for Sabotage (Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Here's the bottom line: phonics is essential, because it’s a mnemonic device for dealing with a huge language like English.
If you don't have the phonics sounds to remind you how to pronounce the words, you will struggle and stall.
College students need more than 100,000 words. A computer might master that many sight-words but if we are talking about your kid, you can forget it.
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.
If you agree that we should dumb down the American population, you will surely love sight-words.
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.
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Video exposes dyslexia hysteria: The Strange Truth About Dyslexia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFLLnRWROQ
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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.
Episode 76: Dyslexia is a Fancy Word for Sabotage
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Ladies and gentlemen…
1: INTRODUCTION: every year our public schools spend more billions to help children become readers. But nothing works. Scores remain flat. The majority of children do not learn to be good readers Common sense tells you that your school officials do not know what they're doing. Don't let your children be sabotaged. Insist on phonics.
The official story is that a fifth of all children suffer from a brain disorder which they have named dyslexia. In fact, the phonics people say that so-called dyslexia is usually not real, being a side-effect of faulty reading instruction.
2: WHY SO MANY KIDS CAN’T READ: One of the most disturbing books in my local Kroger grocery store is called The Jumbo Book of Sight-Words. It’s big: 432 pages, roughly 8-1/2” by 11”. It’s expensive: about $18. It’s a toxic boondoggle, and a tragic monument to the decline and fall of K-12 education..
In 1955, Rudolf Flesch wrote his famous book attacking sight-words: Why Johnny Can't Read. This was a devastating deconstruction of the most dangerous method used in the public schools.
The US had almost universal literacy by 1920. Public schools introduced sight-words in 1931. Hardly more than 20 years later, the country was plunged into an illiteracy crisis that continues to this day.
3: THE BIG PROBLEM: only children with photographic memory can read with sight-words. The great majority of children can master only a few hundred sight-words. Some of the words can be identified only after a delay of several seconds while they drag the word up from memory). This slow process does not count as genuine reading. Real reading is at least two or three words per second.
Optimistic wisdom on the Internet dictates that fourth graders should know 500 sight-words or even 1000. Two problems. Only a tiny percentage can reach such levels, and even that is a huge struggle. Meanwhile, even by their own projections, most children will still be far from literate.
Historically, children in fourth grade could read simple books intended for children. But American students are already moving into the category of functionally illiterate. They cannot read the books written for children to read.
4: PUT YOURSELF IN THE CHILD’S PLACE: you don't know the alphabet. You don't know the sounds of the alphabet. But you're supposed to remember graphic designs such as: their, yellow, pilot, brother, worry, and so on through the vast vocabulary of the English language, thousands and thousands and thousands of so-called sight-words.
English is a phonetic language and must be learned by sounds. But sight-words want you to learn by SHAPES. Truth is, all English words are remarkably similar, lots of little scratchy designs with circles and lines. Reflect for a few minutes on son, bit, lib, jot, lob, rib, lab, but, big, sub: can you memorize these with instant recall? You will surely confuse these with the next 10: joe, web, sit, bug, hat, sob, mob, not, cog, tub.
Now consider that upper case and lower case are very different: compare the design details of and / AND. They are so different they seem to be from another language.
5: THE OFFICIAL LIES
The sight-word deception, as I call it, depends on thousands of education experts insisting that sight-words are easy to memorize. But if you listen to the teachers discussing the problems they have with their students, you realize it's a nightmare for everyone—parents, teachers, and kids.
Have you realized that Fauci and his people exaggerated the danger of Covid and made the disease look worse than it was.. There was definitely some cooking of the books at the very top.
We have the equivalent situation in our schools, where the professors of education somehow manage to find the worst methods.
6. NO DYSLEXIA. In 1981, Flesch published a second book called Why Johnny Still Can't Read. Flesch Interviewed a Manhattan expert on reading problems. This expert insisted that after decades of dealing with many different problems, it was clear to him that only a tiny fraction of people (less than one percent) had genuine inborn dyslexia. All the others were false positives generated by bad instruction. Use phonics and you won't have this problem.
In general, my research suggests that ALL the problems in our public schools are generated by so-called experts who just happen to be socialist ideologues. They won't do what has the best chance of working. No, they insist on using bogus theories and methods. Dishonest and disgusting, don't you think?
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Send this to everyone in the school system. Also send it to parents.
Also see video titled "The strange truth about dyslexia”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFLLnRWROQ
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