Marie Antoinette, on hearing that French peasants had no bread to eat, suggested, "Let them eat cake."This quip perfectly captured the haughty indifference... more

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What Do We Do When The Experts Are Lying??

Posted 2 months ago by BruceDPrice|7 Comments|246 Views

Visiting a popular education site named EducationNext, I noticed a small ad for a site I'd never heard about, ProCon.org. Sounded interesting--something... more

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“The Right To Learn To Read”--A New Civil Rights Frontier

Posted 4 months ago by BruceDPrice|2 Comments|402 Views

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... more

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“Balanced Literacy“ -- Unbalanced and Unhinged

Posted 4 months ago by BruceDPrice|2 Comments|394 Views

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... more

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Education: There Are All Kinds of Lobotomies

Posted 6 months ago by BruceDPrice|0 Comments|452 Views

This is a story about mad scientists. A true story.In 1932, the Education Establishment forced a new, unproven reading method on American public... more

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Education: The Biggest Phonies in History?

Posted 8 months ago by BruceDPrice|9 Comments|683 Views

Let's have a debate."Be it resolved: you can't claim to care about children and their education, and then turn around and make sure they will never... more

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Kids Dropping Out Of School: There Are TWO Separate Scandals

Posted 11 months ago by BruceDPrice|2 Comments|638 Views

The Virginian-Pilot (the newspaper in Norfolk, Va.) recently ran a report on the dropout problem: "Program tries to put 9th-graders back on track."The... more

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