[Following is the script or copy for a short graphic video with the same title; find it on YouTube] improve-educationorg presents HOW TO TEACH ANYTHING & EVERYTHING 3 little rules ------------------ First, decide to teach it

Summary: Many teachers mistakenly think they have the same interests and goals as the Education Establishment Not at all, explains Bruce Price, founder of Improve-Education

SUMMARY: Traditional education is continuously criticized Maybe teachers were too strict

It’s not enough that the Education Establishment of this country has dropped tons of stupid policies on us No, they have done something else almost as diabolical

Listen To Me, You Rich Successful People In Your Big Houses: I know, I know, you don’t want to think about all the bad public schools out there Nothing to do with you, right

(Summary: the big question is why the public schools waste so much time on weird non-academic topics, most of them hostile to traditional beliefs The real witch in this story may be the Education Establishment

In all the comments I see left on internet articles about education, two themes dominate: 1) The first is, average Americans have no idea how bad the public schools are The Education Establishment has done a brilliant job at PR and misinformation

(Summary: some schools would rather have a tornado pass by than actually teach anything It’s this country’s number-one medical problem: brains rarely used, now atrophied

The August 2 cover of TIME magazine screamed: “The Case Against Summer Vacation” With this subtitle: “We romanticize it

Learning styles--something that hardly existed 25 years ago--now seems to be a fixed part of American education Do you ever suspect that maybe we’ve let this thing go too far

The only thing most Americans agree on is that the public schools are mediocre As to why this happened and what we should do next, there is a total bedlam of beliefs and opinions

For a few years I thought the worst possible gimmick in education was Whole Word, basically a device to make sure kids don't learn to read In the last few months, the clamor grew about Core Standards and National Standards, and I started to focus on arithmetic

Starting in 1975, Pol Pot and his Communist revolutionaries killed almost 2,000,000 Cambodians, out of a total population of 5,000,000 Why

This country has a bizarre and unprecedented problem “The longer American children are in school, the worse they perform compared to their international peers,” according to McKinsey and Company, management consultants

Two or three years ago, if I tried to tell people that the problems in the public schools should be blamed on the bosses at the top, that is, the Education Establishment, I didn’t get too far People would object, what about the unconcerned parents

I read The Pledge to America with growing respect It’s written clearly and directly

Summary: Schools don’t teach facts, apparently because the Education Establishment prefers empty-headed kids who can be told what to think But kids need facts, want facts, and can learn facts

Summary: when you understand why educators scorn geography, you know all the reasons why American public schools keep getting dumber It’s easy to point out that public schools don’t teach much geography

Summary: even liberal media are starting to realize that we are sliding into an educational swamp, most of it caused by liberal educators Okay, liberals, everything’s cool

Summary: Media are supposed to be neutral and state the facts Instead, most newspapers have rushed to promote new, unproven ideas coming from federal government

Summary: Socialists tend to believe in grandiose social engineering plans Students who know too much, citizens who can think for themselves, tend to be a problem

Summary: A lot of modern education is incoherent and not really trying, except for foreign language courses There, teachers still proceed in a logical and sequential way toward ambitious goals

Summary: The case for conspiracy is simple: the public schools couldn’t have become so dysfunctional by accident When bad things keep happening, maybe somebody likes it that way

Summary: Constructivism is not just anti-knowledge, it’s also anti-minorities and anti-poor The less you know, the less you will ever know, thanks to this destructive fad

Summary: The premise of public education is that children will be educated and thereby lifted up to a better future The reality is sometimes more cynical, as our elite educators scramble to promote their ideological agenda

Imagine the chagrin of our elite educators They have labored for a century to purge content, facts, and knowledge from the classroom

The following plea--written 55 years ago and addressed to all the teachers of America--is still solid gold today: "You are a grade-school teacher I know that you are doing a conscientious job, that you work overtime for very little pay, that you love children and are proud of your profession

All statistics tell the same story: we’re living in a period of educational decline Despite ever larger expenditures, American students know less and less

Perhaps you saw the exchange on television  One guest said, “The administration’s approach is destructive; they must be trying to hurt the country

Summary: In dumbing down the country, the Education Establishment had dumbed itself down -------------------------------------------------- Years ago I wrote a sci-fi story in which disease wiped out the thousands of people living in a huge space station

Summary: Never Mind the Barbarians Outside the Gates What About the Ones Inside

Summary: Statistics indicate a decline in the public schools Curiously, the mainstream media do not aggressively ask: hey, what’s going on

Summary: Bad ideas are killing the public schools Education activist Bruce Price describes the clunkers in 150 words

Summary: our schools are skilled at making sure boys don’t read  Not to worry

One word Two different worlds

Here’s the common denominator: the Education Establishment is comtemptuous of all three Do you think I jest or exaggerate

Summary: The top educators in most English-speaking countries have waged a relentless war against Flesch His crime: being correct about reading

The Education Establishment is all goo-goo gaga over the newest pedagogical approach: 21st-Century Skills This phrase refers to all the high-level “literacies” that students supposedly need to survive in the brave new world acoming

(Summary: Bruce Price, founder of Improve-Educationorg, says that improving public schools is easier than many people think

The big question, when discussing American public education throughout the 20th century, is this: was there a conspiracy A bold new article says YES

Reading and climate

Here’s the problem: public schools are sometimes mediocre; children learn little; but parents don’t find out until it’s too late Question is, how can parents check on a school’s performance

I asked my doctor what he thought of President Obama’s proposals for health insurance The doctor shrugged with annoyance

Rush Limbaugh has been talking a lot about the four corners of deceit They are, he says, Journalism, Government, Science, Academia

Subtitle: Why the US has 50,000,000 Functional Illiterates In 1955 Rudolf Flesch published a blockbuster called “Why Johnny Can’t Read” In this still-relevant book Flesch lamented that: “The word method is gradually destroying democracy in this country; it returns to the upper middle class the privileges that public education was supposed to distribute evenly among the people

As long as there have been schools, people have been asking, “So, how would we create the perfect school

Here’s the problem, and some things we can do about it The public schools are geniuses at Chatter

More than a century ago, Maria Montessori reached a brilliant insight Observing children at a mental institution, she wondered: “Suppose we created a lush, sensuous, mentally-jazzed environment that constantly challenged, provoked and inspired these young minds

At the end of 2009, Improve-Educationorg celebrated its fourth birthday and reached 100,000 words of original content, recently adding such major new pieces as “41: Educators, O

1) APPRECIATE THE SWEET DEAL Unless you plan to run away from home and live on the streets, you’re going to be in school