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Bruce Deitrick Price

(He/Him)
Virginia, Virginia Beach
As seen in: American Thinker, LinkedIn, Medium, Harvard University, Mental Floss, LifeSiteNews.com, The Province, Free Republic, Canada Free Press, Renew America, Lucianne.com and
Covers:  Education, Reading, K-12, Phonics, Sight-words, Constructivism, dyslexia, Common Core, illiteracy, Dumbing down of America.... I've written several novels that explore what might happen in AI.
Doesn't Cover: Administrative, bureaucratic, and financial aspects of education.
Author, artist, ed activist ("Saving K-12" is good gift.") Literary Thriller: "The Boy Who Saves The World" -- Lit4u.com. Podcast: "Let's Fix Education."

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Bruce Deitrick Price’s Biography

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Author, artist, poet, education reformer. (Photo is of "The Boy Who Saves The World.")

Bruce Deitrick Price is probably the country's most prolific and aggressive writer on education. His forte is deconstructing the dysfunctional theories and methods now doing so much to undermine education.

RECENT NOVEL is "FRANKIE." Frankie is designed to engage in smart conversation with humans. No other skills. Harmless. Chaos ensues. A thriller for intellectuals. For more info: Lit4u.com

NEWEST NOVEL: "The…

Bruce Deitrick Price’s Journalist Portfolio

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Articles: K-12: Drain This Swamp

Articles: K-12: Drain This Swamp

Donald Trump promised to drain the swamp in Washington. This task is especially urgent in that large, malodor…

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Why our journalists are so awful

Why our journalists are so awful

Many people, especially liberals, were surprised that Trump won the election. The surprising thing for me was…

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Articles: K-12: Like Taking Candy from Babies

Articles: K-12: Like Taking Candy from Babies

It's all so easy. Kids don't know enough to complain. Parents don't understand what's going on. Local media a…

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Education: Suppose Al Capone lives in your city

Education: Suppose Al Capone lives in your city

So, Al Capone lives in your city. Do you talk about it? Do you mention that this Mafia guy got his mansion by…

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9 Big Reasons Why Public Schools Wallow in Mediocrity

9 Big Reasons Why Public Schools Wallow in Mediocrity

1) Bad Reading Methods. Whole word (also known as sight-words, Dolch words, and many other aliases) is an 85-…

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K-12: Ten Lies Teachers Tell You

K-12: Ten Lies Teachers Tell You

Almost forty years ago, Flesch published Why Johnny STILL Can't Read , wherein he continued his crusade again…

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K-12: Sight-words never worked as promised

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By Bruce Deitrick Price
| American Thinker Verified
Sight-words — a theory about how to teach reading — is absurd. Give me three minutes, and I’ll explain why. The premise is that children can memorize English words without much effort. This is blatantly not true. Our words are hard to remember, and the more words you learn, the more they get in one another’s way. That’s why we have so many non-readers in middle school and high school.
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Tofu dregs in education

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By Bruce Deitrick Price
| American Thinker Verified
The biggest stories of the age...but everyone missed them? How’s that possible? Tofu dregs projects are now collapsing throughout China. From fine homes to skyscrapers, bridges, and malls, many, many thousands of these structures are so shoddy that they fall apart soon after they are constructed. Imagine that plastic rods are substituted for rebar. Plaster and sand are substituted for concrete. Five years ago, China was counted as the next superpower. Now it’s engaged in massive self-destruction.
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To kill a million mockingbirds

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By Bruce Deitrick Price
| Lucianne.com
Original Article Posted By: Hazymac, 10/29/2025 9:44:02 AM In one of America's most popular novels, seven-year-old Scout has been reading "ever since she was born." She and her father read the newspapers together every evening. Late in the summer, she realized she would be starting school in a week. "I never looked forward more to anything in my life. Hours of wintertime had found me in the treehouse, looking over at the schoolyard, spying on the children there. ...
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I was an MP in the Army and realized this wouldn't help me get a job. So I got myself transferred to Public Information; and that did help.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, for many years but I was never a good typist. Fortunately, word processors came along and then dictation software, which I love.

How is social media changing news?

Not as much as people think. If our leaders and experts tell a lie, how do we blame that on social media? People lie to get power and money.