About: Sam Blumenfeld
Posts by Sam Blumenfeld
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Obama’s Secret Weapon: The Illiterate Vote
During the last election campaign there was much talk about the Latino Vote, the African-American Vote, the Asian vote, the Soccer-Mom Vote, the...
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...
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...
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...
The Progressive Educators’ Plan to Socialize America
Most Americans who have become aware of the academic and moral decline of public education tend to believe that the humanistic curriculum that...