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                        <title>New Site Seeks to Entertain...And to Improve the USA </title>
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                        <description>Improve-Education.org is like having an upscale, entertaining magazine on your monitor. The underlying theme is that our schools must be improved. [PRWeb Jan 11, 2007]</description>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Norfolk, VA (PRWeb) January 10, 2007 -- Readers who enjoy classy publications such as the Smithsonian or the New Yorker will love a brainy new site called Improve-Education.org. This e-magazine presents lively essays on language, art, sophistry, culture, robots, maps, phonics, English usage, birds, poetry, Taoism, creativity, Latin, the novel 1984, dubious education policies and a lot more. Improve-Education.org is the perfect antidote for rainy weekends, boring TV, and dull days at the office.

Novelist and education activist Bruce Deitrick Price explains his goal: &quot;I wanted to create a unique site which a great variety of people will enjoy coming back to. Everything has to be worth reading, and fun to read. There&#039;s no news or current events; I try to write essays that will be useful many years from now. This is my boast: anybody who visits Improve-Education.org will find something to like.&quot;

Here are some of Price&#039;s intriguing titles: 
 
The Plight of Poetry
Birds Like Us
In Praise of Stark Lucidity 
Latin Lives On
Philosophy Weeps
Let&#039;s Get Serious About Education 
MAX Your Creativity 
1984--The Cover Up
A Metalinguistic Inquiry Into F
The Quizz (100 facts that high school grads should have learned)
Form, Function Foolishness 
&quot;Map&quot; Alert

All the articles on Improve-Education.org grew out of Price&#039;s intellectual passions. Typically, he notices that the experts disagree about an issue or that major unanswered questions remain. &quot;That pulls me in,&quot; Price explains. &quot;I do some research, find more contradictions. Now I&#039;m really hooked. Finally, and this might take a few years, I come up with my own answers.&quot;

The author of four books and a leading digital artist, Price tends to be a contrarian--to assume that if all the authorities agree, they&#039;re probably wrong. &quot;It&#039;s been like that throughout history,&quot; he notes. &quot;Pick a year at random, name a society, make a list of what all the smart people took for granted. Odds are we now dismiss most of it.&quot; 

In his article on robots (&quot;Understanding Robots&quot;), Price explains why all the predictions made by experts during the last 75 years turned out false. The report on whole word (&quot;A Tribute to  Rudolph Flesch&quot;) explores why so many educators made a tragic blunder and picked a reading pedagogy that actually causes dyslexia and increases illiteracy.

Improve-Education.org now has 40,000 words of highly original content. Most visitors would probably agree: &quot;Excellent non-fiction.... eclectic...insightful.&quot; But this site also has a serious purpose: to offer a critique of flawed education theory. &quot;I&#039;m hopeful,&quot; Price states wryly, &quot;that American education can be put back on track. We just have to nudge our educators back on track.&quot;

Price has been writing about education for 25 years. &quot;I was first intrigued by educators,&quot; he recalls, &quot;because they concocted some of the worst jargon I had seen. I saw this as a betrayal. I believe that intellectuals have a duty to speak clearly and sincerely. Everything on my site could be enjoyed by kids in high school. I also think that educators in particular have a duty, much like doctors, not to make the patient worse. Despite vast expenditures of tax money, our students don&#039;t do well against students from other countries. We have millions of functional illiterates. It&#039;s sad. It&#039;s unnecessary.&quot;

Price expects to see improvement in American education, and he hopes Improve-Education.org can be a part of that process. Change will come, he believes, when more people face the... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/1/prweb496108.htm]]></content:encoded>
                        <itunes:author>BRUCE DEITRICK PRICE</itunes:author>
                        <itunes:subtitle>New Site Seeks to Entertain...And to Improve the USA </itunes:subtitle>
                        <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Norfolk, VA (PRWeb) January 10, 2007 -- Readers who enjoy classy publications such as the Smithsonian or the New Yorker will love a brainy new site called Improve-Education.org. This e-magazine presents lively essays on language, art, sophistry, culture, robots, maps, phonics, English usage, birds, poetry, Taoism, creativity, Latin, the novel 1984, dubious education policies and a lot more. Improve-Education.org is the perfect antidote for rainy weekends, boring TV, and dull days at the office.

Novelist and education activist Bruce Deitrick Price explains his goal: &quot;I wanted to create a unique site which a great variety of people will enjoy coming back to. Everything has to be worth reading, and fun to read. There&#039;s no news or current events; I try to write essays that will be useful many years from now. This is my boast: anybody who visits Improve-Education.org will find something to like.&quot;

Here are some of Price&#039;s intriguing titles: 
 
The Plight of Poetry
Birds Like Us
In Praise of Stark Lucidity 
Latin Lives On
Philosophy Weeps
Let&#039;s Get Serious About Education 
MAX Your Creativity 
1984--The Cover Up
A Metalinguistic Inquiry Into F
The Quizz (100 facts that high school grads should have learned)
Form, Function Foolishness 
&quot;Map&quot; Alert

All the articles on Improve-Education.org grew out of Price&#039;s intellectual passions. Typically, he notices that the experts disagree about an issue or that major unanswered questions remain. &quot;That pulls me in,&quot; Price explains. &quot;I do some research, find more contradictions. Now I&#039;m really hooked. Finally, and this might take a few years, I come up with my own answers.&quot;

The author of four books and a leading digital artist, Price tends to be a contrarian--to assume that if all the authorities agree, they&#039;re probably wrong. &quot;It&#039;s been like that throughout history,&quot; he notes. &quot;Pick a year at random, name a society, make a list of what all the smart people took for granted. Odds are we now dismiss most of it.&quot; 

In his article on robots (&quot;Understanding Robots&quot;), Price explains why all the predictions made by experts during the last 75 years turned out false. The report on whole word (&quot;A Tribute to  Rudolph Flesch&quot;) explores why so many educators made a tragic blunder and picked a reading pedagogy that actually causes dyslexia and increases illiteracy.

Improve-Education.org now has 40,000 words of highly original content. Most visitors would probably agree: &quot;Excellent non-fiction.... eclectic...insightful.&quot; But this site also has a serious purpose: to offer a critique of flawed education theory. &quot;I&#039;m hopeful,&quot; Price states wryly, &quot;that American education can be put back on track. We just have to nudge our educators back on track.&quot;

Price has been writing about education for 25 years. &quot;I was first intrigued by educators,&quot; he recalls, &quot;because they concocted some of the worst jargon I had seen. I saw this as a betrayal. I believe that intellectuals have a duty to speak clearly and sincerely. Everything on my site could be enjoyed by kids in high school. I also think that educators in particular have a duty, much like doctors, not to make the patient worse. Despite vast expenditures of tax money, our students don&#039;t do well against students from other countries. We have millions of functional illiterates. It&#039;s sad. It&#039;s unnecessary.&quot;

Price expects to see improvement in American education, and he hopes Improve-Education.org can be a part of that process. Change will come, he believes, when more people face the... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/1/prweb496108.htm]]></itunes:summary>

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