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 12: What does "student centered" even mean? Anything?
Episode 12: what does student centered even mean? Anything? Sept. 15, 2015
When our top educators start suggesting that children can do their job better than they can, we need to let these people retire.
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The three recommended guides and an excellent work by each:
Why Johnny Still Can’t Read by Rudolf Flesch
Crimes of the Educators by Samuel Blumenfeld
War Against Academic Child Abuse by Siegfried Engelmann
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I think the real reason the student-centered sophistry was concocted is that adults don't want to say no to children. if you're told that children wouldn't like a certain idea, you think, okay, let's get rid of it. You see how this turns the world upside down.
Reading this article again, I realized that my favorite phrase is "truth centered." In the last few years, I started to think of K-12 as a crime scene and a fraud. Not enough truth, that's the problem.
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.