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About: Sam Blumenfeld

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 to deal...

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 can’t read....

Taking Back the Public Schools

If conservatives truly want to take the schools back, they will have to use a strategy that works from the bottom up. We must first start with the local school board,...

Education and the Election

Seventy-five years of progressive public education has paid off big-time for the Democrat Party. The popular vote indicates that slightly more than half the electorate preferred a failed community organizer to...

Why Education “Standards” Don’t Work

While intelligent CEOs had thought they had found a way of reforming American education, they were totally unaware that left-wing, progressive educators were creating their own “reforms” designed to make things...