Politics

Bruce Deitrick Price

Bruce Deitrick Price is the founder of Improve-Education.org, a high-level education and intellectual site. One focus is reading; see "42: Reading Resources." Another focus is education reform; see “38: Saving Public Schools.” Price is an author, artist and poet. His fifth book is "THE EDUCATION ENIGMA--What Happened to American Education."

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(Summary: the big question is why the public schools waste so much time on weird non-academic topics, most of them hostile to traditional beliefs The real witch in this story may be the Education Establishment

In all the comments I see left on internet articles about education, two themes dominate: 1) The first is, average Americans have no idea how bad the public schools are The Education Establishment has done a brilliant job at PR and misinformation

Made Dumb in the USA

This country has a bizarre and unprecedented problem “The longer American children are in school, the worse they perform compared to their international peers,” according to McKinsey and Company, management consultants

Two or three years ago, if I tried to tell people that the problems in the public schools should be blamed on the bosses at the top, that is, the Education Establishment, I didn’t get too far People would object, what about the unconcerned parents

I read The Pledge to America with growing respect It’s written clearly and directly

Summary: Socialists tend to believe in grandiose social engineering plans Students who know too much, citizens who can think for themselves, tend to be a problem