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.)

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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.

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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.”

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“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

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Epoque Times, a great newspaper, presents a daily feature: great quotes from great minds.

So you know that, quickly and cheaply, all schools can teach philosophy all day long. Use Epoque Times or create your own feature.

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A silly question on the Internet: If the Department of Education is dismantled, then how are kids going to receive their education?

No, the Department of Education is the repository of bad ideas and bad ambitions. Get rid of it and let more mainstream people take control of K-12.

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Episode 189: Government Tests Confirm Decline  -- Wed, Feb. 12, 2025 (but late)

(First let me mention this is the first deadline I missed in three years; my email provider stopped doing its job for two or three days.)

Main news: EducationNext.org reports that we have been mired in shrinking academic outcomes for more than a decade,. And everything.continues to get worse.

“We’ve always had an achievement gap. It was getting worse prior to the pandemic. Since 2019, it has exploded and we can’t tell yet if it’s done growing.”

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In general, the public schools are more dull than ever, and much too devoid of substance. So look for antidote and remedies that make students try new approaches. All those things could be called experimental and that's what this article is about.
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We need more learning starting in kindergarten. And a lot less blah-blah-blah.

The essence of the problem, the essence of the solution, all in 5-minute podcast.

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50 YOUTUBE VIDEOS EXPLAIN WHERE K-12 WENT WRONG 

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The Education Establishment likes to whine. You may think they are expressing a love of improvement. No, they are reinforcing an endless capacity for decline. All the big shots whine, and the public lets them get away with murder, so to speak.

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It was a deal signed in blood, or if not in blood, then in IQ points. Keeping  Sight-Words in play was a dirty trick on all the average students who were reduced a notch or three.

Frank Smith produced the sophistry required to keep nonsense in play.

There is a double penalty because learning to read with phonics actually raises intelligence, according to many researchers.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JV0tPGn-Ws

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Let's Fix Education has been going strong for more than three years, and during all that time one episode was far and away the crowd favorite by a factor of 100.

Episode 86: Super Bowl LVII, the National Anthem, Chris Stapleton: RESPECT offered some of the most popular things in American culture, the Super Bowl, a famous country star singing the Star-Spangled Banner at halftime, and a general hurrah for patriotism. 

[https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/1792553/episodes/12293947-episode-86-super-bowl-lvii-the-national-anthem-chris-stapleton-respect-wed-feb-22-2023]

The episode also had three outstanding links. There's a link to Stapleton’s performance, which is outstanding. There's a second link to a guy who is obviously a music director and he mentions technical details that I thought many people would appreciate. The third link tells the great story about the War of 1812 and the creation of our national anthem, narrated by Ronald Reagan.

So you have a great array of valuable information with the secret message, hey, if our schools were doing a good job, you would already know all this stuff, but my bet is that most people do not.

I got so many views because people passed the link around, which is essential for a niche site like this. Let's Fix Education is for people who care about the schools and understand some of the battles raging since the 1950s: the reading wars, the math wars, the cultural literacy wars, and the pervasive loss of substance and seriousness throughout K-12.  

The extraordinary thing is that the schools have been kept stagnant. Nothing improves. All the articles and podcasts I've written in the last 35 years would be just as fresh today. So don't hesitate to scan the titles and then dip in anywhere that sounds interesting.

I especially hope you pass the podcast to parents with young children. They need to understand what's being done in the schools. If anyone wants to publish or quote anything I've written, be my guest.

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Meanwhile, Trump has promised to abolish the Department of Education, which sounds like a fine idea to me. This will open things up so that mainstream people in each state can start taking back the schools from extremists.

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Meanwhile, I've been adding to my literary site, Lit4u.com, which now features eight novels in several popular genre and a unique long poem titled Theoryland. More titles in 2025. (www.Lit4u.com)

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For our Education Establishment an exciting new wrinkle would be 20 ways to practice collaboration. Their gift must be called what it is, sleep-inducing.

With just a bit of creativity and exploiting the information available to anyone, you can make memorable classroom instruction.

Magicians these days are coming up with new ways to entertain an audience. Copy that.

(For inspiration, reflect on Shin Lim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTJbWylt4-A )

(Acknowledging typo: “...students have all the answers hidden away…"
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Italian is said to be the most beautiful language, the most phonetic language. Unfortunately, their Education Establishment was like ours and wanted to replace beauty with sight-words.

A reform group invited me over to give a speech. It's a quick summary of what the Reading Wars were about. I say the whole thing is a con. You have to give it to these meddlers, they know how to take down a country.

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The contents page from Saving K-12 shows clearly the kind of themes that I enjoy analyzing:

INTRODUCTION
          1. CULTURE WARS
Somebody does not like our culture
          2. READING WARS
Why we have 50,000,000 functional illiterates
          3. MATH WARS
Students reach college not knowing what 7 x 8 is
          4. HISTORICALLY SPEAKING
100 years of dumbing down
          5. THEORIES AND METHODS IN THE
CLASSROOM
Every fad turns out to be a foolish idea
          6. COMMON CORE ENSHRINES THE WORST
That's how you know they aren't sincere
          7. LITERARY FLIGHTS
Who says serious has to be boring
          8. GUILTY
Are they merely clumsy or carefully aiming for mediocrity
          9. MOVERS AND SHAKERS
We need our big shots to move and shake more than they do
          10. WHAT TO DO
Suggestions for repairing the damage

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Starting in kindergarten, children need to read, and they need to learn basic information. Our public schools are designed to stymie BOTH goals.

People with children in school have got to pay more attention. The child’s cognitive and intellectual life might be stunted.

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My main generalization about the universe is that it's insanely chaotic and mysterious. Science and Religion are two ways of grappling with the chaos and mystery. I recommend both.

Historically speaking, Science and Religion trade places when it comes to supremacy. One is all-powerful and then the other takes over. Theories seem to explain everything until they are kicked out on the street.

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MYSTERY OF THE SHROUD ( https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/new-findings-reinforce-the-authenticity-debate-of-the-turin-shroud#google_vignette )

MYSTERY OF DARK ENERGY  ( https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dark-energy-the-biggest-mystery-in-the-universe-9482130/ ))

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There seem to be people at the top of both industries who lack the gene for shame. Anything they can get away with, they are all in. 

Time for the public to realize what the game is they're playing. On street corners it's called Three Card Monty. Many variations, one finale. The sucker always loses.

Point is, people have learned to distrust Big Pharma. Now they should learn to distrust Big Ed because Big Ed definitely does not deserve your trust.

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Wed., Nov. 20, 2024  

Trump wants to get rid of the Department of Education. Here’s why that is good!

Our professors of education are like a vast tumor growing over American culture. They skillfully encourage dumbing down. They must believe they are stronger if the people are weak. Isn't that a shameful thought?

So let's return power to the states, and everybody stand by for opportunities to make their schools better. Happy days.

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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.

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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

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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 the cost.

A cool, calculating observer might even conclude that the people in charge don't know what they're doing. Or they don't want to do what they should be doing.

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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 embraced in the first place.

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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 pressure on these dangerous ideologues. 

The Babylon Bee sees comedy in the pretentious nonsense, and so should we all.

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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 page, or count on your fingers and toes. Remember how the schools made fun of that. Now it's required.

So, should kids memorize times tables? “Stanford University’s Jo Boaler says teachers and parents should stop drilling kids in addition and multiplication.…But wait — doesn’t everyone have to learn times tables?”  No, says Boaler, evidently a dangerous brit.

CODA: Here’s what I've noticed. Every array of ceiling tiles, or linoleum tiles on the floor, contain the multiplication tables. Students can see for themselves that 3 by 4 is the same as 4 x 3. Yeah, it's 12 squares either way. So there is a prompt in plain sight for millions of students. Instead of finding easier ways to do things, the Education Establishment emphasizes difficulty so they will have excuses for reducing content.

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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 explained why zebras have such contrasty stripes. To discuss this, you need background information. Everything in our public schools is like children going to their first cricket game and nobody tells them what the whole thing is about.

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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 arguments and counter-arguments are too well-known. Sight-words rarely work. Phonics has always worked. Give the gift of phonics.

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Demand that children learn more facts and knowledge from kindergarten onward. 

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Everybody should see the 333 Latin-English list. First published in 1985 in the Princeton Alumni Weekly; and further discussed by Princeton’s Salutatorian in 2019:   https://paw.princeton.edu/article/latin-and-latin-salutatory-lives

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Reading is the most important thing. Our public schools are doing a criminally bad job. Don't accept it.

Please see Episode 164. Learn why many experts believe that  "Reading Is Easy.”

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Kids are sometimes given no preliminary instruction and then expected to grasp sophisticated phenomena. Won’t happen without a struggle. Teach them the most basic stuff before you start.

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The podcast is interrupted in the middle so you can watch a video called READING IS EASY. Only three minutes. If you don't get everything then watch the podcast over and over and listen to the video over and over. You will get it all.

READING IS EASY (3-MINUTE VIDEO)
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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. Let's turn it around by teaching content every chance you get.

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PRECISION:  One of the world’s great drum corps.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7jsVsUNWsM

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https://www.nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Essays/v13n1.htm

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For example, use graphics and type design to teach reading, aesthetic judgment, marketing, in short, all the things that a savvy adult should know.

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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 unhelpful

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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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Breitbart explores Lukacs and Gang
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2015/02/04/for-the-first-time-in-history-conservatives-are-at-the-forefront-of-the-cultural-revolution/

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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 reading in our schools. Strangely enough, the two things are parallel.

The official story about what happened in Butler is not to be believed. The fiendish evil plot against children is also not to be believed or at least accepted as human. So there you have it, two parallel universes.

Note 2 excellent videos are included:.

K-12; Sight-Words Are A Sick Joke
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/10/k12_sightwords_are_a_sick_joke.html

How Sight-Words Cause Dyslexia
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Nowadays, the normal instinctive way to do things is avoided. Somehow the kids are led through the backyard and down the street and around through the garage. Yes, they're confused. That seems to be the essence of how you keep children ignorant, and slow.


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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 while, you won't remember you wanted to go anywhere. 

A good illustration of this pessimistic view is the triumphant non-teaching of geography in order to promote the criminal non-teaching of history.

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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.
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This explanation requires navigating the chaos of print, like what a child has to deal with. It's better to go directly to  TRANSCRIPT.

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Linda Goudsmit’s current book is Humanitarian Hoaxes. She writes insightfully about the entire range of liberal panaceas that are doing so much to harm us. https://www.amazon.com/Book-Humanitarian-Hoaxes-Killing-Kindness/dp/098354252X

Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is (forthcoming release July, 2024)

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"‘How did our institutes of higher learning turn into Marxist reeducation camps?” (Question on Quora.)

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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 in 1883. Marx died. Many people though he was a super-genius, although much of his thinking was garbled. But he was persuasive, and many people have spent their lives trying to make his visions come true.

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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. So everyone needs to be informed

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 Deliberate Dumbing Down is not an ethical approach. Nor is keeping children in a vacuum so they never grow up.

Smart Content Makes Kids Smarter
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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 persuade everybody to be more judgmental, more demanding, more of a catalyst.

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Relevant article: K-12: In Praise of WOW! 

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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 ignorance.

(S.N.A.F.U. is military slang for Situation Normal -- All Fouled Up.)

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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 Establishment should focus on this. Instead of retreating from knowledge, the professors should embrace knowledge with greater cleverness.

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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 million functional illiterates. Please stop putting up with this. Take a little time to understand the Great Reading Heist. Read “the Meaning of the Lucy Calkins fiasco.”

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Non-phonics instruction leads to poor reading, anxiety, ADHD, reliance on Ritalin, etc. There is no good reason for teaching with sight-words, except that “experts” insist.

Phonics expert say children typically learn to read in first grade. Requiring children to learn sight-words is typically asking the impossible.

Few humans can memorize even 100 license plates. Why would anyone think that ordinary children can memorize thousands of sight-words?

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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 that, John Dewey.

(For ideas, search “homeschool options.” You'll be amazed at the range of possibilities.)

• (((Alex Newman in Newsweek: "While Americans once argued about how best to fix the system, today's discussions—especially among conservatives and Christians—often revolve around finding the fastest way to get children out. Almost two-thirds of Americans are dissatisfied with the quality of public education. Even liberals are rapidly losing trust in the schools.")))

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Survey courses can be a great help, but skip the politicking. Left-wing professors think the whole point of education is to indoctrinate kids. What a selfish idea.

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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 similarities.

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(Book's full title is Retreat From Learning: Why Teachers Can't Teach. Not easy  to find so I'm happy to tell you that it's on Archive.org )

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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...


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(Short but comprehensive explanation of the reading wars.  Very good.  Please share.)

(Please, everyone, look at my short video Reading Is Easy. Only four minutes. 

And order a copy of Why Johnny Can’t Read (used, less than $10 on Amazon) so you can read the first chapter, about 22 pages, and then you'll know the whole crazy history of keeping America illiterate. 

Flesch’s big mistake was thinking everybody would grasp his short explanation of why sight-words don't work. He thought it was so obvious. One of the most intriguing miscalculations* in history.

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Here’s the premise:   K-12 is best understood as a hoax. 

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/

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Subtitle on book: The Miseducation of America's Teachers

Kramer:  "Teachers were being taught to teach political propaganda as opposed to academic subjects."

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>>> my article about Rita Kramer on X

from podcast:  We don't have a chance of saving the schools until we can neutralize the extreme power of far-left professors. This would be easy If everyone understood that our professors are all too often quacks and pretenders.

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(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 this podcast.

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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. The basic plan is, keep the public dumb and our time will come.

By my tally, there are virtually no good ideas left in our public schools. All the good ideas from traditional education have been replaced by nonsense that professors at Harvard dare to call “progressive.” In reality, it's regressive/repressive.

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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 educate them.

Visit ArtsandCulture.Google.com

https://artsandculture.google.com/

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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 Progress) figures continue to indicate that only ONE-THIRD of American teenagers are "proficient" in reading. (https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/

Meanwhile new numbers have appeared from PISA (Program for International Students Assessment). Psychology Today states our plight with unusual candor: "US scores show that our education system is flatlining.” (!!!)

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NAEP and PISA scores are confusing. Here is a 5-minute article that clarifies what's going on. See “K-12: Are low scores a problem?” (on American Thinker) https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/k12_are_low_test_scores_a_problem.html

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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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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 and methods 
now found throughout our public schools. 
Understand how they actually work to dumb down the students. 

If you know why we need phonics, you're halfway home.

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>>>>>>NOTE REGARDING "EPISODE ARTWORK"

There is an actual book titled "Grifters, Frauds, and Crooks"
by Richard Estep.
Properly, there would be a fat chapter on Shenanigans in K-12.
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World War II was not the first time Germany tried to conquer the United States. The first time was circa 1890 when prestigious German universities sent hundreds of newly minted PhD’s back to their home country where they could conduct Pavlov-style experiments on American children.

Goal: to create in America the ideal socialist state.

John Dewey called this invisible invasion Progressivism.

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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.
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THE STRANGE TRUTH ABOUT DYSLEXIA —
Features a powerful quote from Siegfried Engelmann.
In his long experience,  no kid with an IQ over 80 had dyslexia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFLLnRWROQ


DYSLEXIA: THE DISEASE YOU GET IN SCHOOL —
Sam Blumenfeld wrote a dozen books but this short essay may be his masterpiece.
Notice there's no mention of personality disorders, defective brains,
or any of the other clichés. The cause is the school.
http://donpotter.net/pdf/dyslexia_school_disease.pdf


HOW DOLCH WORDS CAUSE ILLITERACY AND DYSLEXIA —
Best explanation you'll ever see for how sight-words mess up the human mind. 
A little Intense but I say turn it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCNDFTBkPBQ

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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
the facts and knowledge that had always been considered appropriate
for early education.

Now is a good time to go back to what works.
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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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(Spoken or transcript. America needs to hear/read this. Pass it on.)

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Try these Q&A sites for unsettling encounters with young Americans
who don't know how many states are in the United States. Etc. Etc.


THIS IS ACTUALLY SCARY...Gen-Z knows NOTHING!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbmT1Q3XXNM&t=24s

How our youth knows nothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu7RXlIEbog&t=126s

Gen-Z Can't Answer the Most Basic Questions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2oMv93EUpY

NOTE: these sites began at least 20 years ago with Jay Leno, who was said to go Jaywalking. Later, Mark Dice and Jesse Watters did many more. Right now we have an outburst of  new talent, each coming up with new questions. Search generic phrases about the state of American students and you will find many more videos.

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"The questions where the answer is in the question ("When was the war of 1812 fought?") being answered incorrectly truly do break my heart..."

"As a veteran I’m appalled  I lost men in combat to defend this..."

"I'm 70 and have been through a lot, but swear to God, this is the first time in my life that I've been speechless for an entire five minutes.  This is beyond pathetic, it's beyond hopeless... it's a living nightmare... And the nightmare of this nightmare is: They. Will. Reproduce."

"When you dumb down the people in society, like these individuals, it makes it so much easier to manipulate them. It is essentially why society is in the state that it is in."

"As someone in Gen Z, this is both absolutely hilarious how stupid these people are, but also incredibly sad and depressing knowing most of the people have made it through grade school, possibly in college. I laughed and cried but there were mostly tears and disappointment. I’m so sorry for them  This is just sad, man."

"Imagine a time period when you have all the information you could ever need at your fingertips and you end up like this."

"it always breaks my heart to see the state of human intelligence."

NOTE: the question "Where is the Panama Canal?" has been on these sites for years. An astonishing number of people do not know the answer.

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