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Ironic about the other reply to your post - generally studies here are totally dismissed or not required - it’s supposed to be “common sense” when it comes to “
by erulabs 3y ago
Ironic about the other reply to your post - generally studies here are totally dismissed or not required - it’s supposed to be “common sense” when it comes to “the children”.
It’s so strange how whenever things are most important we tend to totally throw out scientific rigor. See SF abolishing math with zero studies or the way we construct school buildings with zero architectural appeal or the way schoolbooks are procured.
Methodology is a thing for nerds to use to build airplanes - at least that’s the attitude I get when asking other parents / teachers about data to back up their “overhauls”.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoIt's lack of trust. I too tend to be dismissive by default when it comes to school decisions backed by "studies", because I don't trust an average social science study, I definitely don't trust those that become trendy, and I don't trust school administration to be able to comprehend even a valid study, much less implement it fully in a hostile political and parents/school relationship environment. Hard sciences are easy, soft sciences are difficult. When you follow a bogus physics study and fuck up your airplane design, your mistake will be immediately apparent. When you follow a bogus social sciences study and fuck up the K12 curriculum, your mistake might be apparent after you retire, if it'll ever become apparent at all.