I spend a lot of time trying to solve one of the most interesting crime stories there is. Why, despite vast sums of money and massive concern by the public, are our educators somehow able to achieve new depths of dumb? Why?? Because they know what they want and they work at it! I just [...]

Please, if you know a non-reader or you are connected to a literacy program, check out what I believe is a very important new article: 33: How To Help  A Non-Reader To Read,  on Improve-Education.org. The country is said to have 50,000,000 “functional illiterates.” Typically, these are people once trapped in Whole Word classrooms. They mange to [...]

I just reviewed an old book for Amazon.com called “The New Illiterates” by Samuel Blumenfeld. Published in 1973, this book is still amazingly fresh. How can that be? Because our elite educators still hang on to all their excuses and sophistries, still refuse to work for genuine academic improvement. In this book Blumenfeld points out [...]