Novelist, artist, poet, art director, education activist.
Author of five books. (Pitching two more as we speak.)
Founded Improve-Education.org in 2005, an intellectual-educational site with a strong undercurrent of let's-take-back-the-schools. Also have 200 education articles and videos on other sites.
(Usual name: Bruce Deitrick Price)
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BruceDPrice
14 days ago|179 views|2 comments
Typically, we hear about "a right to read." In this political paradigm, there is a free press; and people can read what they want. Implicitly, people are able to read. The problem is that sometimes...
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1 month ago|246 views|2 comments
So here's the deal. The same people who lied to us about reading for 70 years now want us to believe they are finally telling the truth.They said that English isn't phonetic, that children don't...
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2 months ago|145 views|1 comment
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...
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2 months ago|327 views|0 comments
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...
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