Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price

Episode 196: Education reformers agree: Sight-words are a con (Wed, April 2, 2025)

Episode 196:  Education reformers agree: Sight-words are a con (Wed, April 2, 2025) Please note, this short piece runs a few seconds over 5 minutes, that's all. And then you will understand the Reading Wars, and all the nonsense of the last 100 years. (Urgent note: you might be better off reading this as TRANSCRIPT because I'm explaining the problems of sight-words by illustrating how similar most English words are to many other  English words. For example, a sight-word reader would see these words as hugely similar: light, tight, flight, height, mighty, sights, blight, bright, fight, nightly ... 2nd urgent note: the Reading Wars started exactly 100 years ago and the Comintern  has been winning ever since. Please pass this episode to parents of young children.) ------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT. ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Word-Wise Education 757-455-5020 Bruce Deitrick Price ******** LITERARY NEWS ******** "The  Boy  Who  Saves  The  World"                 (ebook and paper)          A Smart, Emotional Thriller -----------------------------------------------  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. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/support]

Episode 195: Wait. Can A Mere Boy Save The World?? (Wed, March 26, 2025)

Episode 195: Wait. Can A Mere Boy Save The World?? (Wed, March 26,  2025) My new novel is titled The Boy Who Saves The World. Thoughtful people want to know, could such a thing actually happen???  Many experts speculate that robotics and AI can end up anywhere you can imagine.... as in this thriller. --------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT. ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Word-Wise Education 757-455-5020 Bruce Deitrick Price ******** LITERARY NEWS ******** "The  Boy  Who  Saves  The  World"                 (ebook and paper)          A Smart, Emotional Thriller -----------------------------------------------  Available in e-book for $7.77 and in paperback for $19.99 Author’s website is lit4u.com [http://lit4u.com] (which presents nine novels and two nonfiction books about K-12 education). --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/support]

Episode 194: The 8000-pound Guerrilla in the Classroom?? (Wed, March 19, 2025)

Episode 194: The 8000-pound Guerrilla in the Classroom??  Wed, March 19, 2025 The Comintern was all about winning. An idea could be really quite nasty and barbarous. But if it would win, they did it. Promises changed. Lenin promised: “Land, bread, peace.” The peasants got none of that. Did you notice the casual way Kamala went from hating fracking to “Sure, I like fracking.” -------------------------------------------------------------------- “I Led Three Lives” --  Give this episode 10 minutes and  you'll understand what it is to be a spy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKxUD7ryxdE ------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT. ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Word-Wise Education 757-455-5020 Bruce Deitrick Price ******** LITERARY NEWS ******** "The  Boy  Who  Saves  The  World"                 (ebook and paper)          A Smart, Emotional Thriller -----------------------------------------------  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. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/support]

Episode 193, Big Picture Thinking: Wed, March 12, 2025

Episode 193, Big Picture Thinking -- Wed, March 12, 2025 I want to celebrate the work of Linda Goudsmit. Her topic is understanding life in the 21st-century, the forces that are dragging it down, and how we can make it better. --------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT. ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Word-Wise Education 757-455-5020 Bruce Deitrick Price ******** LITERARY NEWS ******** "The  Boy  Who  Saves  The  World"                 (ebook and paper)          A Smart, Emotional Thriller  -------       -------      --------         ------          visit Lit4u.com   (book  # 7) ------------------------------------------------------        When you need a smart gift,                  give Saving K-12  [https://www.lit4u.com/saving-k-12/]. ------------------------------------------------------ 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. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/support]

Episode 192: "Why are underperforming schools in American urban neighborhoods difficult to turn around?" (Quora Question) Wed, March 5, 2025

GREAT DOUBLE ARTICLE: a quick look at why we must have phonics. And a quick look at the career of Sue Dickson, who invented one of the best phonics programs. All of this in five minutes. -------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT. ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help, visit  Education Reform [http://spot.fund/SupportEducationReform]  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12  [https://www.lit4u.com/saving-k-12/]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Word-Wise Education 757-455-5020 Bruce Deitrick Price --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *************LITERARY NEWS: "The Boy Who Saves The World"                now available in ebook and paper A Smart Thriller For Most Readers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/support]