How to Tell Real Phonics From Phony Phonics
A lot of parents these days are concerned about how their children are being taught to read in school. And so they ask the teacher, "Are you teaching phonics?" Virtually every...
About: Sam Blumenfeld
Posts by Sam Blumenfeld
Can College Be Homeschooled?
What do Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg all have in common? They all dropped out of college and pursued their interest in computer technology so that today they are...
The Importance of Rote Learning
The 1850 edition of Noah Webster's Dictionary defines "rote" as: "To fix in memory by means of frequent repetition." That certainly is the essence of what we mean by rote memorization....
Learning From the “Old Dead Guys”
The idea that there is little or nothing to be learned from "Old Dead Guys" is a pretty ridiculous notion. In the first place, everything we have today was built on...
Uncle Sam Wants Your Child in His National Database
The U.S. Department of Education has created the largest computerized database of personal information on American students ever gathered by any government in history. The exact personal and intimate facts in...
There Ain’t No Conspiracy Here
David Rockefeller, in his 2002 autobiography, Memoirs, assures us that there is no secret conspiracy to create a world government. While he proudly admits to being an internationalist, he insists that...
Miracle on Computer Street
Way back in 1947 there was a movie filmed entitled Miracle on 34th Street, in which a Santa Claus in a New York department store brought happiness to a little boy....
Confessions of a Dyslexic Internationalist
With America now experiencing high rates of functional illiteracy, it is obvious that there are many individuals in our society in positions of responsibility who are functionally illiterate. The late, lamented...
How Homeschoolers Can Help Promote Homeschooling
I’m sure that homeschoolers will agree that defending and expanding educational freedom is in the interest of homeschoolers. The public education establishment, which has enormous political power through the National Education...
Sarah Palin’s Emails
In the annals of American politics, I don’t believe that any congressman, governor, or president has been the subject of such relentless liberal or media hatred or criticism as Sarah Palin,...
Why True Reform of American Public Education is Impossible
To understand why our public education system is in its present wretched academic state, one must realize that the system is no longer run as an intellectual institution. Ever since the...
The Exploding Federal Budget
It’s hard to believe that the entire federal budget in 1960 was $76.5 billion, which is a little less (just $500 million less) than the $77 billion the Department of Education...
Obama’s Foreign Policy
Ralph Peters is one of the New York Post’s best columnists. After serving over twenty years in the U.S. army, he retired in 1998, which permitted him to write and speak...
ObamaCare Dooms the Elderly
Barack Obama is a socialist, and since socialists consolidate power in government and unrestrained government kills, socialists end up being accomplices to mass murder if not mass murderers themselves. Witness the...
The Parasitic Network
Back in 1967, during the Johnson administration, there was a well-organized campaign by the liberal establishment to saddle the American people with subsidized, “public” television. Prior to 1967, noncommercial “educational” television...