This site presents essays by Bruce Price dealing
with
LANGUAGE, CULTURE, and EDUCATION.
Some
essays first appeared years ago in the Washington Post, Word Ways, Princeton Alumni Weekly and Verbatim. Most are recent.
All share a passion for intellectual endeavor and educational achievement. Click titles
below:
"Whereas Jay Leno, via the Tonight Show segment called
JAYWALKING, has done more than anyone else in the USA to promote the improvement of education..."
33: How To Help A Non-Reader To Read....34:
The Con in Constructivism.... 35: A Tribute to Samuel Blumenfeld...36: The Assault on Math.... 37: Whole Word
versus Phonics....38: Saving Public Schools--A New Paradigm
>> COMING IN 2009:
TEACHING
PHYSICS, ETC.....O.J., EDUCATORS, AND GUILT...."WHY UPPER CASE AND LOWER
CASE?.... SIGHT WORDS: THE BIG STUPID....THE COMING DYSLEXIA SCANDAL.... THE NEW YORK TIMES IS SHRINKING....A BASIC CURRICULUM...."THE
ART OF TEACHING".... INDIA TO U.S. EDUCATORS: "THANKS FOR THE JOBS"....WHAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE UNIVERSE
.... SOCIALISM'S REAL APPEAL ..... JUNK SCIENCE, JUNK JOURNALISM.... TOO MUCH EMPHASIS ON THE ARTS??
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link between debased language and failed education policies. Princeton Alumni Weekly. IN PRAISE OF STARK LUCIDITY. LATIN LIVES
ON, 333 common words identical in Latin and English. 131 GREEK/ENGLISH WORDS... AN INQUIRY INTO MODIFIER NOUN PROLIFERATION,
NOUN OVERUSE PHENOMENON ARTICLE, phenomenon I called Nounspeak. (Verbatim).... LET'S GET SERIOUS ABOUT EDUCATION...A SMASHING
VICTORY, largest group of rhyming words with a semantic kinship. (Word Ways)... METALINGUISTIC INQUIRY INTO F, .(Verbatim)....
PHILOSOPHY WEEPS, Sophistry in academia....MAX YOUR CREATIVITY-- experimental writing and painting....WHAT'S ALL THIS
TALK ABOUT DIGITAL ART?...."MAP" ALERT..a map without a scale of miles is an imposter... PRECISION WORTH PRESERVING...14:
THEORYLAND...epic poem satirizing games that professors play. 15: "1984"--The Cover Up...the great novel's enduring
message.16: THE PLIGHT OF POETRY...what professors and McPoets did to Poetry. Ars Poetica...17: UNDERSTANDING ROBOTS....18:
TAO TE CHING & notes on the spirtual life & Strategies for Happiness...19: FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION--NOT!..20: The Quizz;
Facts Are Fun...21: A Tribute To Rudolph Flesch....22: On Bullshit & Sophistry...23: The Creativity Question...24: Birds
Like Us. 25: John Dewey Education. 26: How to Teach History, Etc. Ergonomic Teaching and Ergonomic Education. 27: Ivan Pavlov
Education 28: Tips for Helping Your Child 29: Rules of Poetry 30: War Against Reading. 31: Teacher Liberation
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