I have a piece on TCS titled "The Biggest Mystery in American History" (i.e., the decline of public education). The most interesting thing that emerged in the responses is that everybody has a DIFFERENT theory about why the schools are messed up. I've heard more than 20. Please, people. These are distractions.

Ask yourself this simple question, if the people at the top of the Education Establishment wanted better schools, wouldn't we have better schools?? I think so. I believe any 400 names out of the phone book would deliver better schools!

Ergo, I conclude that these faux-educators, these clones of John Dewey, are all tangled up in their social engineering schemes (i.e., let's get ready for socialism), to the extent that reading, writing and arithmetic are not priorities. Indeed, they are nuisances. So here's my proposal: if you want better schools, we have to get rid of all the ideology-driven educators at the top, or at least get rid of the many flawed methods they introduced--Whole Word, Reform Math, Constructivism, Self Esteem, No Memorization and many, many more.

As part of my ed crusade, I created a new blog called EducationImproved.blogspot.com, which is composed of only short pieces, news-related. This is a good introduction to the many aspects of education that I like to research.