Whenever you are looking for an expert opinion on education (especially where it has gone wrong), make sure you check first with Dr. Blumenfeld.
Samuel L. Blumenfeld has published ten books on education in America, and spent much of his career investigating the following problems: the decline in American literacy, the reasons for the high rate of learning disabilities in American children, the reasons behind the educational establishment in America’s support for sex and drug education, the reasons why so many children are labeled ADD, and why the school system refuses to use intensive phonics in reading instruction and memorization in mathematics instruction.
Blumenfeld was born in New York City, educated there, and graduated from The City College of New York in 1950. The book publishing industry is where he spent his next ten years. He has taught children in private schools, as a substitute in public schools and as a private tutor. His experience in education and his veneration as a speaker have brought him to lecture in every state in the United States as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and England. He has also written for many publications for both online and print sources.
His published works include (among others): N.E.A. Trojan Horse in American Education, Is Public Education Necessary?, Property in a Humane Economy, How to Tutor, Alpha-Phonics, The New Illiterates and How You Can Keep Your Child from Becoming One, The Whole Language / OBE Fraud, Homeschooling: A Parents Guide to Teaching Children, The Victims of Dick and Jane, The Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection.
How To Tutor and Alpha Phonics focus on proper methods for teaching children basic school subjects. Blumenfeld’s other works primarily focus on the failures of the public education establishment in America. He is internationally recognized as a leader in the intensive, systematic phonics movement.
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December 19th, 2009 at 11:55 am
How do you feel about homeschooling? What are the benefits verses the drawbacks to it? Do you think that public schools are like mass education like mass production of a generic product that doesn’t come out as good in the end? Do you think the public education system today is failing?
Editor’s response: Lia…drawbacks are far outnumbered by benefits and blessing in home schooling. I suppose some might consider having to pay school taxes and not being able to use them for support of your home school as a drawback, but we weigh the blessings. No doubt that the social experiment of public schooling, at the expense of our children, has proven to be an all-round, dismal failure. People have been trying to turn America into a socialist state for years. Most people home school, because the Bible, prayer and the ten commandments have been removed from public schools and this is against their Christian values and belief. However, over all, these same people have observed the downfall of a school system in direct parallel to the downward spiral of our society. Home schooling, over all, has by far surpassed public schools and excels in all areas of study as well as national spelling bees, national standardized testing, and more.