Episode 196: Education reformers agree: Sight-words are a con (Wed, April 2, 2025) Please note, this short piece runs a few seconds over 5 minutes, that's all. And then you will understand the Reading Wars, and all the nonsense of the last 100 years. (Urgent note: you might be better off reading this as TRANSCRIPT because I'm explaining the problems of sight-words by illustrating how similar most English words are to many other English words. For example, a sight-word reader would...
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Episode 196: Education reformers agree: Sight-words are a con (Wed, April 2, 2025) Please note, this short piece runs a few seconds over 5 minutes, that's all. And then you will understand the Reading Wars, and all the nonsense of the last 100 years. (Urgent note: you might be better off reading this as TRANSCRIPT because I'm explaining the problems of sight-words by illustrating how similar most English words are to many other English words. For example, a sight-word reader would...
Episode 179: Religion versus Science: where’s that go? (Wed., Dec. 4, 2024)
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
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Episode 179: Religion versus Science: where’s that go? (Wed., Dec. 4, 2024)
Episode 179: Religion versus Science: where’s that go? (Wed., Dec. 4, 2024) Science or Religion, which do you prefer? Another question is, which do you hope is true? My main generalization about the universe is that it's insanely chaotic and mysterious. Science and Religion are two ways of grappling with the chaos and mystery. I recommend both. Historically speaking, Science and Religion trade places when it comes to supremacy. One is all-powerful and then the other takes over. T...
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
Episode 196: Education reformers agree: Sight-words are a con (Wed, April 2, 2025) Please note, this short piece runs a few seconds over 5 minutes, that's all. And then you will understand the Reading Wars, and all the nonsense of the last 100 years. (Urgent note: you might be better off reading this as TRANSCRIPT because I'm explaining the problems of sight-words by illustrating how similar most English words are to many other English words. For example, a sight-word reader would...