“Class Dismissed”: New Film Promotes Homeschooling
Class Dismissed, a new full-length documentary film about homeschooling, was screened in the Boston area on December 1, having already been seen by sold-out audiences in November on the...
About: Sam Blumenfeld
Posts by Sam Blumenfeld
Sight Method of Teaching Reading Causes Dyslexia
The sight-reading method of teaching reading, which was instituted in the 1930s in American public schools to replace phonics, actually causes dyslexia. ...
Education and the American Dream
A recent study places the United States fifth among nations that have people with college degrees; we rank 12th in K-12 educational achievement, while once-impoverished South Korea now ranks...
New York City’s Educational Woes
According to tests, less than half of New York public school students are college ready in the way of English, and less than 18 percent are college ready in...
Fifty Years of Title 1: Has It Worked?
Title 1, which is a federal program meant to help poor and minority children succeed in school, has been in place for 50 years, but it still hasn't helped...
Americanism: The Creed of a Free People
Americanism is the Bible-based creed of a free people, the philosophy of the Founding Fathers as stated in the Declaration and the Constitution. ...
Biology Professor Tells Students: Science and Religion Cannot Be Reconciled
David P. Barash, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Washington, makes it a point at the beginning of each academic year to tell his students that...
Yale Professor: “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League”
William Deresiewicz, who taught at Yale for 10 years, recommends that students not go to Yale or other Ivy League schools, or even strive to go there. ...
Jeb Bush’s Education Summit Promotes Common Core
The Education Summit in Boston on October 17-18 featured much bipartisan support for Common Core, charter schools, and other types of "education reform" that won't help American education. ...
How to Take Back the Public Schools
Children deserve to be saved from our nihilist public schools by conservatives who know how these children are being cynically used to keep the Left in power. And of...
Readingate: The 100-Year Coverup of Educational Malpractice, Part 5
Ideas matter. They have consequences. Why did some of the most intelligent educators in America conspire to destroy the brain power of the American people? It doesn’t make sense...
Readingate: The 100-Year Coverup of Educational Malpractice, Part 4
Most people today still have no idea that our national reading problem is the result of deliberately faulty teaching methods — look-say or sight-reading rather than intensive phonics —...
Readingate: The 100-Year Coverup of Educational Malpractice, Part 3
In the 1960s the government threw more money and legislation at the nation's reading problem, but the reading skills of students continued to plummet. The deliberate dumbing down of...
Readingate: The 100-Year Coverup of Educational Malpractice, Part 2
Progressive educators such as John Dewey implemented their whole-word reading method into schools in the early 20th century. While this reading method was detrimental to the reading ability of...
After Columbine: Why School Shootings Still Happen
The horrendous massacre at the Sandy Hook primary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20 children and seven adults were brutally murdered, indicates that the evil force that turned...
Readingate: The 100-Year Coverup of Educational Malpractice
The simple truth is that we are living through the greatest coverup of educational malpractice by professional educators this nation has ever known. And we will not be able...
What Is Functional Illiteracy?
The way reading is taught in public schools has consequences affecting millions of young Americans. It creates social problems on such a huge scale, that the nation is hardly able...
Cooperative Learning: Communism in the Classroom
Cooperative learning is a good example of communism in the public school classroom. The student is not judged by his individual effort but as a member of a group....
How 19th Century Communists Formed a Secret Society to Promote American Public Education
Most Americans are under the impression that communism as an ideology was invented by Marx and Lenin and first practiced in the Soviet Union. The truth, however, is quite...
How to Eradicate Illiteracy in America
The latest statistics report that 14 percent (32 million) of U.S. adults can’t read. Twenty-one percent (48 million) read below a 5th grade level. Sixty-three percent of prison inmates...