Episode 181: My Italy Speech Revisited (Wed, Dec. 18, 2024)

Episode 181: My Italy Speech Revisited  (Wed, Dec. 18, 2024)

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Italian is said to be the most beautiful language, the most phonetic language. Unfortunately, their Education Establishment was like ours and wanted to replace beauty with sight-words.

A reform group invited me over to give a speech. It's a quick summary of what the Reading Wars were about. I say the whole thing is a con. You have to give it to these meddlers, they know how to take down a country.

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The contents page from Saving K-12 shows clearly the kind of themes that I enjoy analyzing:

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

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Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet,
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