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:
K-12: Quackery Kneecaps Reading
July 5, 2021
The field of reading became a branch of Medicine. The professors were triumphant in dictating the terms of the switcheroo. Kids were the big losers. That's K-12 in America
K-12: The Sabotage of Public Education
February 10, 2021
• The secrets of successful schools are well-known
•The problem is that our Education Establishment refuses to implement those ideas
•The problem is that our Education Establishment refuses to implement those ideas
Teachers feeling guilty. A good start
June 8, 2020
It's better for everyone if teachers understand what they're doing wrong.
K-12: The Most Appalling Things About Today’s Students
March 23, 2020
Teach basic skills. Teach foundational knowledge. Just as important, teach responsibility and self-discipline
A Bill of Rights for Students 2020
January 8, 2020
This BILL OF RIGHTS states the need for a knowledge-based classroom
Why so much depression in our public schools?
November 6, 2019
Maybe some politicians want to exploit this sadness and depression. The kids are so lost and adrift, they can be persuaded to believe anything
K-12: How Constructivism constructs confusion
September 12, 2019
Education Establishment wants you to believe that Constructivism is the King Kong of instructional theories
Fixing K-12: How We Can Do It
August 8, 2019
We need to raise the level of the education debate in this country
K-12: Marked for Extinction
May 23, 2019
Schools once focused on content. That was the good old days. What went wrong?
Do Social Justice Warriors Fight for the Right to Read?
March 28, 2019
What conception of social justice would permit millions of Americans to remain illiterate?
K-12: Listen To Me, You Rich Successful People In Your Mansions
January 22, 2019
Biggest hoax of the last 100 years is Whole Word
A high-tech way of explaining bad schools
November 8, 2018
K-12: Logic Bombs and Pac-Man
French Class As the Perfect Way to Teach Everything
September 9, 2018
A lot of modern education is inefficient, except for foreign language courses. There, teachers still proceed in a logical, sequential, and honest way.
Dear Abby" does not realize that public schools have become quite destructive
Socialism versus Education
June 17, 2018
"A death instinct" in action...
I'm pessimistic about the depth of their concern with failed teachers and kids
Literacy Experts: Are They Ready To Apologize Yet?
March 14, 2018
Berys Dixon is the Education Establishment's worst nightmare
K-12: Sight-Words vs. Vocabulary Words
January 4, 2018
Yes, it’s a serious business with threats on all sides. Sight-words are the beginning of many problems. Avoid them
K-12: The Schools You Deserve
December 7, 2017
The Education Establishment's great triumph is to make themselves appear safe, not too threatening, somehow not prime players. All their bad theories and methods somehow turn up on their own, unlucky accidents. There is the big mistake that Americans
K-12 is Worse Than You Think
October 7, 2017
Education Establishment had expropriated the whole K-12 system
K-12: Sight-Words are Hoax Words
July 16, 2017
BACK-TO-SCHOOL ALERT
Why is K-12 education reform so hard to achieve?
November 5, 2016
The Media Are Afraid To Tell The Truth
K-12: Criminal Minds At Work
October 20, 2016
America's top educators dare not speak frankly about their goals. They must operate in a nether world of deception and duplicity.
Memo to American teenagers and millennials
September 28, 2016
If you want to look into the hearts and minds of the Democrat Party, Liberal Establishment, Media Elite, all you have to do is look into the hearts, minds of the people who ran your public school
Why Kids Can’t Read
September 3, 2016
BACK TO SCHOOL ALERT: K-12 schools force children to learn to read the hard way. Therefore, few children learn to read
Is Close Reading a complete fraud?
July 15, 2016
Public schools are full of pedagogical gimmicks. Let’s take a close look at Close Reading
Why Socialism Is A Bad Deal
June 7, 2016
Before you let Socialist dictators dictate your life, consider what you’re giving up and what they’re taking away
Educational decline: who is to blame?
April 8, 2016
Education is not rocket science. As corny as it sounds, you simply have to take care of the basics (the 3R’s) and then creatively teach children as much knowledge as each one can handle
Reading IS phonics
February 19, 2016
The reading debate continues to rage. The same confusing arguments are endlessly recycled. Finally, nobody escapes the central truth that reading and phonics are essentially the same.
Steve Jobs vs. the Education Establishment
January 15, 2016
If we want to improve the educational situation, the first step is to realize that the people now in charge are not our friends. It’s unlikely that Steve Jobs would have a kind word to say about any of them.