I have a Book coming out in November called Saving K-12. It answers these questions: What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them?
If you think our public schools are fine and dandy then you won’t want to look at this book. But if you feel that our publics schools should be better, and could be better, then you will enjoy this book.
The main strategy for improvement is that people understand what’s really happening in the classroom. Namely, our Education Establishment promotes inferior, even cruel methods. For example, kids cannot learn to read with sight-words. It’s more of a hoax than anything else. When parents understand how the hoax works, then they can fight back.
Saving K-12 consists of 65 essays on a wide range of topics.--
Contents
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
SUMMING UP
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The book, now in production, can be preordered by Labor Day.
For more information, see Lit4u.com ( https://www.lit4u.com/saving-k-12/ )
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Bruce Deitrick Price
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