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Not sure why so many school districts empower an educational “research” establishment which seems to be uninformed about, and allergic to, empirical work… we ha

• rahimnathwani 4y ago
  Here are the folks from my local school district (San Francisco) explaining their approach: https://youtu.be/3RsitD6m0vU https://youtu.be/3RsitD6m0vU The questions towards the end of the video didn't receive satisfactory answers.
• jfengel 4y ago
  These are the experiments. They don't get to raise a set of control-children in lab. They don't get to use animal models. They don't get to run Monte Carlo simulations. The only way to test if an educational theory works is to try it out in the real world. You train a bunch of teachers in it, try it on a bunch of children, and wait 15-20 years for the results to come in. All the while fighting for the integrity of the experiment vs. the numerous other variables people will impose. It would be great if we could do what we do with subatomic particles, or atoms, but we can't. Neither can we refrain from doing it, because we know that education needs to be improved. It's simply false to say "why even try because the old way was working fine", because it wasn't -- certainly not for everybody. The researchers are not uninformed. They have tons of information, all of it complicated and contradictory because people are more complicated than electrons. They're also under-funded to do research of the magnitude that they require, since their work on educating the next generation of citizens is arguably far more important than finding new bosons.