This site presents essays by Bruce Price dealing with
LANGUAGE, CULTURE, and EDUCATION.
Some essays first appeared years ago in the Washington
Post, Word Ways, Princeton Alumni Weekly and Verbatim. Most are recent. All share a passion for intellectual endeavor and
educational achievement. Click titles below:
"Whereas Jay Leno, via the Tonight Show segment called
JAYWALKING, has done more than anyone else in the USA to promote the improvement of education..."
36: The Assault on Math.... 37: Whole Word
versus Phonics.... 38: Saving Public Schools--A New Paradigm....39: How To Teach Physics, Etc... 40: Sight Words -- The Big
Stupid ... 41: Educators, O. J. Simpson and Guilt... 42: Reading Resources... 44: The Myth of Automaticity
>> COMING IN 2009:
"WHY UPPER CASE AND LOWER
CASE?.....THE COMING DYSLEXIA SCANDAL.... THE NEW YORK TIMES IS SHRINKING....A BASIC CURRICULUM...."THE ART OF TEACHING"....
INDIA TO U.S. EDUCATORS: "THANKS FOR THE JOBS"....WHAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE UNIVERSE .... SOCIALISM'S REAL APPEAL
..... JUNK SCIENCE, JUNK JOURNALISM.... TOO MUCH EMPHASIS ON THE ARTS??
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COPY REPEATED BECAUSE ROBOTS CAN'T READ JPEGS! Our Schools Can Be Better...ENGLISH AND EDUCATION: IN PRAISE
OF STARK LUCIDITY. LATIN LIVES ON, 333 common words identical in Latin and English. 131 GREEK/ENGLISH WORDS... AN INQUIRY
INTO MODIFIER NOUN PROLIFERATION, NOUN OVERUSE PHENOMENON ARTICLE, Nounspeak.... LET'S GET SERIOUS ABOUT EDUCATION...A SMASHING
VICTORY, largest group of rhyming words with a semantic kinship. . METALINGUISTIC INQUIRY INTO F, ... PHILOSOPHY WEEPS, ...MAX
YOUR CREATIVITY-- experimental ...WHAT'S ALL THIS TALK ABOUT DIGITAL ART?...."MAP" ALERT..a map without a scale
of miles is an imposter... PRECISION WORTH PRESERVING...14: THEORYLAND...epic poem satirizing games that professors play.
15: "1984"--The Cover Up....16: THE PLIGHT OF POETRY...what professors and McPoets did to Poetry. ..17: UNDERSTANDING
ROBOTS....18: TAO TE CHING & notes on the spirtual life & Strategies for Happiness...19: FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION--NOT!..20:
The Quizz; Facts Are Fun...21: A Tribute To Rudolph Flesch....22: On Bullshit & Sophistry...23: The Creativity Question...24:
Birds Like Us. 25: John Dewey Education. 26: How to Teach History, Etc. Ergonomic Teaching and Ergonomic Education. 27: Ivan
Pavlov Education 28: Tips for Helping Your Child 29: Rules of Poetry 30: War Against Reading. 31: Teacher Liberation
Front... 32: Teaching Science So Science Is Fun.. 33: How to Help A Non-Reader to Read... Smartest Site in USA. Intellectual
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