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2012:  Welcome to Improve-Education.org 
 
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. Older items are first.
Newest is "60: Smart Content Makes Kids Smarter" 

 
 

1. English and Education
2: In Praise Of Stark Lucidity
latin lives on   greek lives on
4: An Inquiry into Modifier Noun Proliferation
4: Noun Overuse Phenomenon Article = Nounspeak
Let's Get Serious About Education
A Smashing Victory
A Metalinguistic Inquiry Into F
Philosophy Weeps
max your creativity
Digital Art
map alert
precision worth preserving, grammar must be taught
THEORYLAND--EPIC POEM
"1984"--The Cover Up

The Plight of Poetry
Understanding Robots
Tao Te Ching

FORM, FUNCTION, FOOLISHNESS

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Rudolf Flesch American education
On Bullsh-t & Sophistry
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Birds Like Us--A Nature Study

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Teaching History

Ivan Pavlov Harms Education

TIPS FOR HELPING CHILDREN
THE RULES OF POETRY
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Teacher Liberation Front
Teaching Science So Science Is Fun
How To Help A Non-Reader To Read
The Con in Constructivism
Samuel Blumenfeld--Authority in Reading
The Assault on Math
Whole Word versus Phonics
Saving Public Schools--A New Paradigm
How to Teach Physics
Sight Words--The Big Stupid
Educators, O. J. Simpson and Guilt
42: Reading Resources
43: American Basic Curriculum- Parallel Education
44: The Myth of Automaticity
45: The Crusade Against Knowledge and Memory
public schools seem designed to fail
Teach one fact each day
sight words? you still teach sight words?
How do we learn? How should we teach?
50 LEADING BOYS TO READING
learning styles
conspiracy chronicles
53: Education Establishment Hates Math
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letters from teachers
top 10 worst ideas in education
cooperative learning
58: How To Teach A Poem
59: Critical Thinking--If Only
60 SMART CONTENT MAKES KIDS SMARTER

 
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Bruce Price's new book explains the crisis in American education--
 
The Education Enigma

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New articles added at regular intervals.
 
FEATURED ARTICLE OF THE MONTH:
"28: Tips for Helping Your Child Do Better in School"
Ten sections; read in any order. 
 
--NOTE TO TEACHERS--
on this site "elite educators" and similar phrases
never mean teachers.
(The terms refer to the bosses at the top,
the professors who make policy, i.e., the Education Establishment.) 
This site, in fact, is a teacher's best friend.
See "This Site's Mission" or "31: Teacher Liberation Front." 
 
 

 
 
SITE AND ALL CONTENTS © BRUCE DEITRICK PRICE 2005-2012

N E W E S T:...52: The Conspiracy Chronicles..... 53: The Education Establishment Hates Math .....54: Preemptive Reading--Teach Your Child Early....55: Letters From Teachers....56: Top 10 Worst Ideas In Education....
57: Cooperative Learning....58: How To Teach A Poem--The Best and Worst Ways....59: Critical Thinking -- If Only....60: Smart Content Makes Kids Smarter.... 61: Early Literacy Pack (ELP)


>> COMING IN 2012: ...
ANIMALS & PLANTS--WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE....TAKING BACK THE SCHOOLS....... BOUNCING BALL PROJECT......... WHY UPPER CASE AND LOWER CASE?........ COMING DYSLEXIA SCANDAL.... THE NEW YORK TIMES IS SHRINKING......."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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