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Education: Who will speak for the children?

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It will be so easy to tell. In the second grade kids are reading little books. In the third grade they are doing arithmetic. In the fourth grade, they know where their state is on a map of the country. In the fifth grade, they know who George Washington is. 

Just the basic stuff. Nothing unreasonable. The problem now is that American children do not know basic stuff. They are in classrooms for years and years and years but by a perverse sort of alchemy, they learn virtually nothing. Aren't you sick of it?

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Bruce Deitrick Price explains educational theories and methods on his site   Improve-Education.org.  

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Author, artist, and education reformer. My main site is Improve-Education.org, where I put longer, more serious articles. I put hundreds of shorter articles on various other sites. As well as videos on YouTube. I write about all aspects of (more...)
 
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