Crimes of the Educators

Was America’s literacy crisis accidental — or engineered? Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children argues the latter. Samuel Blumenfeld and Alex Newman document how Progressive reformers, led by John Dewey, replaced phonics with sight-word memorization, traded civic knowledge for social conditioning, and built a school system designed to reshape culture. The result is not simply falling test scores, but functional illiteracy, moral confusion, and a generation less able to defend freedom.

With precision, the authors expose how these methods damage children’s brains, producing dyslexia where none existed before. They track the fallout: California’s literacy collapse, the rise of “cooperative learning,” fuzzy math, and the explosion of psychiatric drugging in classrooms. They show how curricula undermine faith, push values clarification, and expand data-tracking systems that map every child. From Common Core to cultural relativism, the through-line is clear — what looks like failure is a calculated success if the goal is centralization and control.

Yet Crimes of the Educators does not stop with indictment. Blumenfeld and Newman also point to restoration: reintroducing phonics, safeguarding parental authority, and demanding accountability in school boards and legislatures. For parents, pastors, educators, and policymakers, this book serves as both warning and guide. Its message is urgent: America’s survival depends on rescuing education from those who deliberately sabotaged it. (2015, 368pp, pb)