Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America's Children

Beyond painting a dark picture of the educational landscape and identifying the perpetrators, they give practical recommendations for restoring excellence in education." --Donald Potter, lifelong educator and editor of First Readers AnthologyCrimes of the Educators by Samuel Blumenfeld and Alex Newman is must reading for every parent. One does not need agree with Samuel Blumenfield and Alex Newman on everything to agree that Crimes of the Educators makes a compelling case that America s public education system must undergo radical change if future generations are to have any chance of living in a free and prosperous country. The title of this book used the word crimes and that is not too strong a word to describe what has been done to American children. The failu

Ned - Origins Activist ("NOA") said Can U.S. Education be Saved?. Samuel Blumenfeld, who testified before the Subcommittee on Education in 198Can U.S. Education be Saved? Ned - Origins Activist ("NOA") Samuel Blumenfeld, who testified before the Subcommittee on Education in 1984, and Alex Newman have done an excellent job of exposing the serious problems within public education. One of the key focus points of the book is sight reading v. phonics. I went through first grade twice because I had trouble reading. "See Spot run" does not work. My wife used Blumenfeld's *Alpha Phonics* to teach our son to read and write before he started s. , and Alex Newman have done an excellent job of exposing the serious problems within public education. One of the key focus points of the book is sight reading v. phonics. I went through first grade twice because I had trouble reading. "See Spot run" does not work. My wife used Blumenfeld's *Alpha Phonics* to teach our son to read and write before he started s. S. Sandman said I am about half way thru the book. Although. I am about half way thru the book. Although I am a fast reader, I am taking my time since there is so much information that supports things I have suspected. I frequently read passages to my wife and then we discuss how it affirms the our experiences in dealing with the education/divorce/child protection services/ psychology industry in both the U.S. and Canada. The only rational choice is to homeschool.Buy this book, read it slowly so. CEB said A Crucial Book for Those Who Want Insight on the Past and Future of Public School Education in the USA. I agree with almost everything they said here. I am a teacher, and was a student of Ken Goodman, the "Whole Language" guru in the mid 1980's. Sitting in his lectures, I remember thinking to myself that what we were being taught about how to teach reading made no sense at all. I wondered why theories this inane could hold sway over so many in-service and pre-service teachers. To fully appreciate what is said here, I recommend reading Ch

This can only be considered a blatant form of child abuse.American author and veteran educator Samuel Blumenfeld and journalist Alex Newman have taken on the public education establishment as never before and exposed it for the de facto criminal enterprise it is.Crimes of the Educators reveals how the architects of America's public school disaster implemented a plan to socialize the United States by knowingly and willingly dumbing down the population, a mission closer to success than ever as the Obama administration works relentlessly to nationalize K-12 schooling with Common Core.The whole-word method of teaching children to read - introduced by John Dewey and colleagues in the early twentieth century and which permeates Common Core - is a significant cause of dyslexia among students. Public education's war against religion, the "great American math disaster," promotion of death education, and the government's plan to lower standards for all so "no one is left behind" is destroying the logic, reasoning, and overall educati

Samuel L. Blumenfeld is the author of eight books on education, including: Is Public Education Necessary?NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education, The Whole Language/OBE Fraud, and Homeschooling: A Parent's Guide to Teaching Children.