http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Bruce+Deitrick+Price Education Bruce Deitrick Price Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=1283263&ca=Education [SUMMARY: New test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress reveal that two-thirds of American kids are effectively illiterate. New policies--and new experts--are needed.] The new National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) figures show that only 35% of our younger students... Education Bruce Deitrick Price Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=1280979&ca=Education There are parents who sincerely believe, “Phonics didn’t work for my child.” This is an extraordinary assertion, akin to saying, “Exercise didn’t help my kid.” Phonics experts say they routinely teach nearly 100% of children to read, typically in the first grade. Phonics is as close to a sure thing... Education Bruce Deitrick Price Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=1280996&ca=Education A remarkable spectacle has unfolded over the last few years. The Obama Administration has offered multi-million dollar grants to states to tempt them into adopting a new approach to education called Common Core Curriculum. At this point, more than 40 states have accepted the deal. Prediction: they w... Education Bruce Deitrick Price Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=1276168&ca=Education Once upon a time, in a country far away, students had to memorize stuff. They knew the names of presidents, states, rivers, inventors, countries, books. Why, they even knew dates! They could recite poetry! They could actually find Alaska on a map. These were rough and ready times, and it was every... Culture Bruce Deitrick Price Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=1276264&ca=Culture This is a story about mad scientists. A true story. In 1932, the Education Establishment forced a new, unproven reading method on American public schools (the method was known at the time as Look-say). The results were disastrous. In 1936, an American doctor named Walter Freeman performed the first... Opinions Bruce Deitrick Price Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=1276296&ca=Opinions The Most Revealing Education Anecdote Ever, that’s the topic for today’s rant. In researching why American public schools sank into mediocrity, I’ve read about 60 books and hundreds of articles. The writers are always describing juicy conversations and revealing scenes, as quick ways to illustrate w... Education Bruce Deitrick Price Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=1268244&ca=Education Welcome to the Reading Wars. One of the weirder aspects of this conflict is that some so-called experts say a lot of untrue things, for example, that English is not a phonetic language. Sure, and birds do not fly.     To set the stage for this debate, I want to remind you that Rudolf Flesch conclude... Opinions Bruce Deitrick Price Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=695720&ca=Opinions “It’s one of the more curious stories in American education,” notes Bruce Price, founder of Improve-Education.org. “Classroom teachers often identify with the elite education commissars who control the system. In truth, the two groups have little in common. The education bosses, dedicated to left-wi... Education Bruce Deitrick Price Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=685870&ca=Education I believe it’s helpful for people to evaluate their own education, and reflect on what worked and didn’t work. Then you have a solid personal basis for judging new ideas and what is going on in local schools. Many years ago, I attended a very good private school. But even there, as I look back, ther... Opinions Bruce Deitrick Price Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=661212&ca=Opinions It’s not enough that the Education Establishment of this country has dropped tons of stupid policies on us. No, they have done something else almost as diabolical. They have blurred the distinction between teachers, that is the people in the classrooms, and educators, that is, the bosses at the top....