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Savvy, practical insights on where our Education Establishment went wrong and how most schools can be improved.LET'S FIX EDUCATION explains the many dysfunctional theories and methods operating within our schools. This podcast is intended for parents, teachers, and community leaders who want education reform. Each week, LET'S FIX EDUCATION examines another problem in our public schools, such as: Constructivism. Learning styles. Sight-words. No memorization. Cooperative learning. Prior knowle ...
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Episode 176: The Goal Is Not The Goal (Wed., Nov. 13, 2024) There is a lot of bait and switch throughout K-12, in all subjects. The professors promise you’ll be educated, but instead they make you learn minor stuff, irrelevant stuff. The crucial stuff is forgotten. ---------------------------------------------------------- Listen to PODCAST or read…
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Episode 175: Millions of Children Suffer from Schoolitis Here is a dirty little secret. Experts create clouds of confusion around our schools. Parents do not know what's going on in the schools. Or whether anything good is happening. Here are some tips for evaluating the damage ---------------------------------------------------------- Listen to PO…
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Episode 174, The Education Enigma -- Wed., Oct. 30, 2024 What is THE EDUCATION ENIGMA? USA spends more money per capita than any other country, but we have the worst schools. And the least educated students. How do you explain this to yourself? This paradox I have named The Education Enigma. Everything is unbelievably shoddy and low-level, except t…
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Memo to students. Are you looking for good topics to research and write about? I have been studying education for many years. I've published a lot of material that you will find useful. So much of the writing within the field of education is shallow, useless, and boring. Typically, professors try to protect methods that should never have been embra…
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Episode 172: Trump threatens to cancel Department of Education. Is this Good? Bad? Or merely a premise for Comedy? (Wed., Oct. 16, 2024) K-12 is not a serious place. It’s an endless array of goofy ideas that should never be used. Basically, that's why Trump wants to eliminate the Department of Education. Personally, I support anything that puts pre…
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Episode 171: Why Kids Need Multiplication Tables (Wed., October 9, 2024) What is the one method that every student knows is essential for middle and upper level math. It's a list of shortcuts that we call the multiplication tables. What is 6 by 4? If you don't know, you have to start over again on every question. You have to put little dots on the …
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Episode 170: Critical thinking about why do zebras have stripes? (Wed., Oct. 2, 2024) Ed professors play a dangerous game, keeping students ignorant, while pretending that somehow they are being educated. No matter what people are discussing, you need a little basic information on that topic to join the discussion. Did you know that science has not…
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Episode 169: Make sure your child is reading in first grade. (Wed., Sept.25, 2024) -- K-12 is polluted by bad reading theories. They are killing the country. And if you let them, they will cripple your kid. Maybe you think the education professors are nice guys lost in the woods, that's why they prefer bad theories. No, it's not possible. The argum…
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Episode 168: Back To School: Don’t Let Children Be Culturally Illiterate (Wed., Sept. 18, 2024) All of education depends on starting small and building on that foundation. Our public schools have gutted the early stages where you learn the basics, also known as cultural literacy. Demand that children learn more facts and knowledge from kindergarten…
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Our country is dumber each year because less and less knowledge is taught in the classroom. Don't accept this incompetence, or what I would call it, malevolence. Episode 167 offers ideas for making our schools more efficient, and our students more intelligent. ---------------------------------------------------------- Listen to PODCAST or read TRAN…
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Episode 166: Back to school: Modern History Elevated by Iron and Steel Wed., Sept. 4, 2024 SUMMARY: A look at the central ingredient of modern times, namely, the SKYSCRAPER. When did it appear and how and why? —————————————————————————— —————————————————————————— POSTSCRIPT: as urgent as ever Reading is the most important thing. Our public schools …
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Episode 165: Back to school: Jump into science, e.g., electricity (Wed. Aug. 28, 2024) Start small. Teach the littlest amount of information possible. Over time you can give children the fundamental information they need. Kids are sometimes given no preliminary instruction and then expected to grasp sophisticated phenomena. Won’t happen without a s…
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Episode 164 Back To School: Make Reading #1 Priority (Wed.,August 21, 2024) Super-condensed explanation of why the schools can’t teach reading. This is the single most important flaw in American culture. Don't take it anymore. The podcast is interrupted in the middle so you can watch a video called READING IS EASY. Only three minutes. If you don't …
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Episode 163: More Good Ideas For Going Back to School Wed., August 14, 2024 ---------------------------- Let's reclaim the classrooms and fill them with joyful learning. To understand why the schools are so bad, you have to understand that the professors in charge do not care about intellectual or academic content. Sorry, that's the tough reality. …
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Episode 162; Exploring through Typography Wed., Aug., 7, 2024 BACK TO SCHOOL with better ways to do everything. For example, use graphics and type design to teach reading, aesthetic judgment, marketing, in short, all the things that a savvy adult should know. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to PODC…
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Episode 61: Schools more violent!! Experts pretend to be baffled?? Wed., July 31, 2024 If sight-words and constructivism, didn't work 50 years ago, why do you think they'll work today? The schools are full of goofy ideas. Think of them as ticks on a dog, pluck them off and burn them. Episode 161 explains why the Education Establishment is so unhelp…
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Episode 160: How Ideological Hacks Ruin The Schools (Wed., July 24, 2024) Don't let the blizzard of lies confuse you. It's the same pattern over and over. They try to take you off your game. So they can order you around and make you behave the way they want. The answers themselves are just garbage. That's the thing to keep in mind. ----------------…
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Episode 159: What About the Attempted Assassination of American Children? Wed., July 17, 2024 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Really hyper ingenious conspiracy. Or just weird dumb luck. I'm talking about the Trump assassination. I'm also talking about the weird ways they teach…
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Episode 158: Public Schools gone to hell?? Who you gonna call?? Wed., July 10, 2024 Basically all education, in all times and places, can be described as incremental mastery. You learn a little today and then a little more tomorrow and then still a little more the next day. Just as if you want to build a high brick wall, you start with one row of b…
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Episode 157: why do Public Schools hate Geography? (Wed., July 3rd, 2024) There are no good ideas in our public schools, only garbage expressed in protective sauce. Instead of telling you how to reach your destination, the schools will lay out a program of scuba diving, mah Jong, and fashion tips. You won't get to where you wanted to go. After a wh…
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Episode 156: The Waste of Systemic Ignorance (Wed., June 26, 2024) The situation is simple. The professional educators, as they deceptively call themselves, don't believe in education. They like ignorance. Learn, baby, learn. That should be the chant and the cheer of all educated people. Good School, Bad School. How to tell the difference-- see sho…
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Reality One, we have to get rid of sight-words, so that literacy will have a chance. Reality Two requires explaining the subject to lots of people. That's done most easily, according to author Linda Goudsmit, with the following one-page method. This explanation requires navigating the chaos of print, like what a child has to deal with. It's better …
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Episode 154 - Wednesday, June 12, 2024 "‘How did our institutes of higher learning turn into Marxist reeducation camps?” (Question on Quora.) ----- A pivotal question which every American should try to answer. Here's my short answer: a vast army of saboteurs has been working in the shadows for more than a century. Here is the chronology, starting i…
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Episode 153:: What your students need to know about Socialism. (Wed., June 5, 2024) Perfect short summary of Socialism and Communism, 5 minutes, for all classes American schools are full of covert Communists and Socialists. They pretend to explain things in long convoluted ways that don't explain very much. Socialism can be a life-and-death choice.…
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Episode 152: Curriculum Planning, max speed (Wed., May 29, 2024) Stop teaching nothing all day. Teach all the wonderful things children need to know and want to know. Not to mention, you'll have more fun. Here are about 50 ideas you can use this year. Deliberate Dumbing Down is not an ethical approach. Nor is keeping children in a vacuum so they ne…
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Episode 151: How Can We Motivate Underachieving Children Who Don't Want to Learn? (question on Quora; first answered on my Substack) Wed., May 22, 2024 NB: the public schools are probably much worse than you suspect. But people don't want to deal with that information, so the Education Establishment gets away with doing a lousy job. I'm trying to p…
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Episode 150: K-12 -- S.N.A.F.U. (Wed., May 15, 2024) --- Welcome to K-12 where education goes to die. Come on, people, get involved. Kids are dumbed down every day. There's no excuse for it. Every sane idea has been sabotaged and sent into exile. Now we see nothing but counterproductive ideas. Naturally, we have epidemics of illiteracy and ignoranc…
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Episode 149: YOU should be an education reformer. (Wed., May 8, 2024) Join the good guys, against the duplicitous professors of education who have devised so much sneaky nonsense. I've been calling K-12 a crime scene for 20 years. This is a very liberating notion. Education is a bad part of town. Adults will be robbed, children will be stunted. QED…
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Episode 148: Latin Lives On… and On Wednesday, May 1, 2024 ------------ Latin Lives On: 333 common words letter for letter identical in Latin and English. Each word is a mnemonic device providing extra texture, extra connections. My list illustrates a general principle: there's always a better, quicker, cheaper way to teach a lot. The Education Est…
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Episode 147: The Great Betrayal: Top Experts Make Millions by Promoting Worst Methods (Wed, April 24, 2024) —————————————————————— First published as “42: Who Ruined Reading” on Improve-Education.org. Site is now unavailable due to incompetence of hosting company. I’m working on recovery. Our Education Establishment is also incompetent. We have 50 …
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K-12 Boycott: Are You Ready? (Wednesday, April 17, 2024) K-12 is too often a bad marriage. The Education Establishment is the alcoholic husband (photo) who beats his long-suffering wife. All the progressive/socialist/communist schemes are dedicated to the idea of using schools to indoctrinate young minds. Real education is about freeing minds. Take…
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Episode 145: Survey Courses? Yes, We Desperately Need Them. (Wed. April 10, 2024) Our schools have often given up the very idea of teaching lots of stuff, and even if they try, they have no idea how to do it. Train the teachers better and then let them loose. Survey courses can be a great help, but skip the politicking. Left-wing professors think t…
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Episode 144: Best Practice: Teach Items In Clusters (Wed., April 3, 2024) If we want to save the schools, we have to teach more information, more quickly. We have to find techniques that will make it easy for students to remember stuff. One of the easiest and most essential methods is using clusters, that is several things united by their similarit…
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70 Years Ago, Schools Were Already Warped (Wed., March 27, 2024) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joan Dunn, a schoolteacher, wrote a book about her experiences in Brooklyn schools circa 1953. It is a time capsule, showing that quite long ago the professors of education had substanti…
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Episode 142 Wed., March 20, 2024 Can Anyone Read? I think that too often the answer is: no, not really. What we have now is a great range of readers, with only the best being what we used to call readers... - - - - - - - - - - - - --- - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --- - - (Short but comp…
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K-12: Nothing Taught. Nothing Learned. (Episode 141 Wed., March 13, 2024) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here’s the premise: K-12 is best understood as a hoax. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------…
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Episode 140: The Legacy of Rita Kramer and the Embarrassment Factor (Wed., March 6, 2024) Subtitle on book: The Miseducation of America's Teachers Kramer: "Teachers were being taught to teach political propaganda as opposed to academic subjects." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> my Amazon review: >>> my a…
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Episode 139: You can’t handle the Truth about K-12 (Wed., Feb. 28, 2024) Summary: At every level, in every classroom, the education experts limit knowledge, as if it’s some terrible disease that children should avoid. In a real school, experts do everything possible to encourage children to learn more. Our schools do the opposite, as explained in t…
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Episode 138: Traditional Education is what we need now (Wed., Feb. 21, 2024) Watching progressives wreck education is a kind of sport. Maybe some of you think it's fun. I remind you it's tremendously expensive. And your kids will be almost as dumb five years from now as they are today. Socialists and Communists always want to dumb down the people. …
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Episode 137: Enjoy Real Education (Wed., February 14, 2024) Excellent new Google project leads students to arts and culture. The tone is loving and peaceful: behold all the beauty in our world. K-12 schools are typically the opposite of what they should be. The people who control the schools have gone rogue. They want to indoctrinate children, not …
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Episode 136: The K-12 Gulag (Wed., Feb. 7, 2024) INTRO Our schools are doing a lousy job, but the public is so befuddled, there is hardly a squawk. Every American should ask this question: why are we putting up with second-rate schools while paying top dollar? ARTICLES THAT GO WITH THIS PODCAST: Recent NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progr…
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Episode 135: Educational Wastelands (Wed., Jan. 31, 2024) For more than 100 years, the so-called education wars have always been a deliberate attempt to sabotage K-12 in America. it's much easier to reform our school system if we understand what befell us. Basically, it was a barbarian invasion by people who don't know anything about education but …
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Episode 134: Freedom is the issue. Why did the bold, new President of Argentina come to the UN to state; “I'm here to tell you that the western world is in danger”? The big issue is freedom. Will we hang onto it? Or kick it to the curb? NOTE: "his manners" in paragraph 2 refers to "Trump's manners." -------------------------------------------------…
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Episode 133: Don't Be Their Accomplice (Wed., Jan. 17, 2024) The wrong people are in charge of our schools. You know they are not nice people because they are always trying to dumb down the schools. My main request to everyone: don't help these unscrupulous people. Obstruct them if you can. The best thing is to learn more about the bogus theories a…
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Episode 132: The One Book About Education Everyone Should Read (Wed., Jan. 10, 2024) A very unexpected and enjoyable book. The lowdown about 20th century education developments written by a smart insider. World War II was not the first time Germany tried to conquer the United States. The first time was circa 1890 when prestigious German universitie…
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Please! Can We Stop The Dyslexia Nonsense? Everyone in America should watch this podcast (voice or transcript) You'll know why so many people end up not reading at all or they find that reading is very difficult and unpleasant. Cripple reading and you cripple our entire culture. That's what is happening now. ----------------------------------------…
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Research Reveals How K-12 Was Intentionally Sabotaged The podcast Let's Fix Education helps Americans reclaim their public schools. Pick three random numbers from 1 to 130, read those episodes. Then you'll know whether this podcast is helpful for you and/or your friends. For more than 85 years the Education Establishment has relentlessly eliminated…
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Episode 129: Why Education “Experts” Hate Cursive A fast, short explanation of why we need cursive. And why the Education Establishment hates it. American K-12 is the land of slow and partial. Apparently our public schools are in no hurry to go anywhere. Good news: it's easy to fix this. -------------------------------------------------------------…
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Here's the problem simply stated. Much of the Education Establishment is terminally, tragically in love with stuff that doesn’t work. These people are the problem. Those who support them are accomplices. Don't be an accomplice. Counterproductive theories and methods have the drastic effect of nullifying all serious attempts at education. The kids c…
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American K-12 drifts ever downward. If you doubt that, this podcast is for you. (Spoken or transcript. America needs to hear/read this. Pass it on.) oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooo supporting material for podcast oooooooooooooooooooo Try these Q&A sites for unsettling encounters with young Americans …
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