Bruce Deitrick Price

Bruce Deitrick Price has been writing about education for 30 years. He is the founder of Improve-Education.org. His eighth book is "Saving K-12 --What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them?" More aggressively than most, Price argues that America's elite educators have deliberately aimed for mediocrity--low standards in public schools prove this. Support this writer on Patreon.

Most Recent Articles by Bruce Deitrick Price:

How The Reading War Became A Religious War June 28, 2013
Phonics, by proceeding one simple step at a time, enables all children to read, typically by the end of first grade
The Efficient Path to Education Reform September 2, 2012
In short, the Public Schools OS is malware. It's a network, a matrix, of elaborately confected sophistries that invariably do the opposite of what is claimed
In Reading, One Size Does Fit All April 25, 2012
Whatever the Education Establishment is preaching, first assume it’s the wrong way to proceed.
Big Lie Has New Name: High-Frequency Words March 29, 2012
Wacky Words--that might be the next alias
Let Them Eat Sight-Words February 15, 2012
During the 1920s, the American population was moving toward universal literacy. By 1940s, that success was a thing of the past.
Is English a Phonetic Language?? Of course. 100%. November 18, 2011
The anti-phonics cartel makes a big deal of this variability. But their objection is hysterically overstated and largely irrelevant as children show up in first grade recognizing 15,000 words
Hurray for Mary Johnson—A Great Educator (and a Canadian) February 2, 2011
Programmed Illiteracy in our Schools
Education: The Conspiracy Question June 10, 2010
New Math, Open Classroom, Life-Adjustment, Child-Centered Education, Constructivism, Bilingual Education
How Public School Teachers Can Reverse the Educational Decline June 1, 2010
Why Johnny Can't Read
How American Public Education Became A Doomsday Machine May 13, 2010
In dumbing down the country, the Education Establishment had dumbed itself down!
Could Educators Be That Dumb?? April 24, 2010
Everyone wants to know...
The Educators Are Coming! The Educators Are Coming! March 27, 2010
Never mind the barbarians outside the gates. What about the ones inside?
Our Schools Are Skilled At Making Sure Boys Don’t Read… March 16, 2010
Keeping Boys From Reading
What Do YOU Mean When You Say “Education”? March 4, 2010
One word. Two different worlds
Rudolph Flesch Rules the World of Reading February 23, 2010
The top educators in both Canada and USA have waged a relentless war against Flesch. His crime: being correct about reading. Their crime: being comfortable with illiteracy.
What do Knowledge, Kids, and the USA have in common? February 16, 2010
Simply judging by appearances, you might suspect that the American Education Establishment is hostile to Knowledge, Kids and the USA. When you look closer, you are sure
Big Lies About Reading And Climate January 25, 2010
What do reading and climate have in common? The far-left tells lots of Big Lies about both
Unique American Education Site Celebrates 4th Birthday January 11, 2010
Improve-Education.org--which reached age four and 100,000 words at the start of 2010--continues to provide a radical critique of American education
Education Activist Urges Americans: Get Angry About Education July 31, 2009
The top educators have overrun the countryside with sophistries and scams
Stalinists? Or They Walked That Way? July 8, 2009
Why the US has 50,000,000 functional illiterates
The Assault on Math June 23, 2009
A Method To Their Mayhem