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:

Bill Ayers and Social Injustice October 27, 2015
Here we arrive at the central paradox of our far-left zealots. They are not going to ask your permission for the New World they want to give you
The Purpose of Public Schools October 14, 2015
So-called progressives have been in charge of our public schools for a hundred years. We have had a perpetual decline in those public schools. What conclusion can you draw?
Education, politics, and lies—what’s the difference? August 6, 2015
How charming that one of our most famous left-wing intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, provides the answer: “It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the Truth and expose lies.”
Education: Suppose Al Capone lives in your city June 12, 2015
When the Education Establishment does a bad job, people should be mad as hell and not take it anymore
K-12 Education: why so Paralyzed and Schizophrenic? May 19, 2015
K-12 education in the US is paralyzed inside and outside. Fraudulent ideologues rule.
K-12 Education is a Crooked House April 25, 2015
Common Core is a repackaging of all the bad ideas from the last 75 years but now locked-in by federal regulation
An Urgent Plea to our Local Media and our Local Leaders March 22, 2015
Education is perhaps the most important single social issue. The schools are dumbing children down from K to 12 and then up through college
Education: the Silence of the Shepherds February 20, 2015
At some point, even progressive educators have to look around and say, "Wow, we really made a mess of things"
Ignore Common Core, the NEA, and Bill Gates. Here are some good ideas January 18, 2015
Students cannot multiply and divide. They can’t find their own state on a map. We have 50 million functional literates. Is somebody still able to pretend that these are acceptable results?
What’s education for? Let’s have a national debate on this issue December 4, 2014
Our Education Establishment goes to busy cities and towns, purges all the knowledge, cripples learning, until finally they have created a society of cognitive zombies wandering in the void.
Why no large-scale testing of American education ideas? November 15, 2014
Our Education Establishment selects its winners and losers in back rooms, like banana republic dictators, and then creates window dressing to justify the picks
An Executive’s Guide To Today’s Under-Educated Employees October 12, 2014
The simplest solution to the mediocrity of our public schools is to put education back in people’s lives. Talk it up
Education: What a Wonderful World It Would Be September 12, 2014
A lot of boring things are being taught in boring, incoherent ways, with the result that children learn almost nothing
Public school education—there’s bad news and good news August 9, 2014
Bad news is that the Education Establishment has embraced too many bad ideas to count. The good news is that people have started to snicker.
Education: None Dare Call Them Commies July 17, 2014
Decline in American public schools is best explained by the far-left politics of our Education Establishment. These people prefer mediocrity
New World Order: “In your face, peasants!” May 30, 2014
Education: Constructivism, Inquiry and Discovery, Look-say reading, Reform Math, Common Core
Education as Covert Op May 4, 2014
Common Core should be opposed because it is arguably the culmination of all these covert ops
Teachers, Facilitators, Babysitters: is there a difference? March 9, 2014
All the latest educational theories require that teachers stop teaching. No one should be surprised if children stop learning
“They mean well. They just can’t get their act together.” March 2, 2014
Forget all the excuses (parents, money, kids, etc.) Very little that happens in education is accidental
Biggest bullies in the public schools: the Education Establishment January 18, 2014
Common Core, Whole Word, Reform Math,
The K-12 Lobotomy December 30, 2013
Much more than we would like to think, the K-12 experience is a lobotomy performed in slow motion
English Hieroglyphics are fun and easy to read December 22, 2013
An easy way to understand what the Reading Wars were always about...
Is your child suffering from schoolitis?? December 6, 2013
Many schools force children to work continuously with a group. They get used to being part of a lump, a blob
What really happened to boys? November 13, 2013
From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago
Bogus reading instruction is the 800-pound quack in many classrooms November 8, 2013
Sight-word, both the linguistic term and the instructional concept, is a mistake
SIght-Words Remain Biggest Problem in Reading October 22, 2013
Sight-words are the gangsters of reading. They bring nothing to the table. They take everything away.
When children are not learning, where can parents look for answers? Who will tell the truth? September 25, 2013
Mediocrity is our norm. We are paying for gold but getting bronze.
College professors should be more involved in K-12 education September 8, 2013
All levels of education influence each other. College professors can greatly help higher education by joining the fight to improve secondary education.
Everyone Should “Oppose” Public Education August 23, 2013
Education Establishment uses obvious sophistry to demonize critics. If you suggest ways to improve public schools, you are said to “oppose” public education.
Imagine making children illiterate July 28, 2013
Reading Is Easy. -- You have to work to make kids illiterate