Thanks. A wonderful comment. All the bad ideas are now “research-based.” In that case, could we just have something based on experience??
Maybe “bought into” isn’t right. That lets the Dept. of Ed off the hook. “Perpetrated” might be more like it.
In any case, please use my work to help out. That linked-to article is fairly aggressive, and might make a few of these sophists blink.
Well, I am not wholly convinced that some of them actually are aware of what they do- that some of the folks at NCDPI are pretty much enjoying a sinecure through the grace of some bigwig.
As for the Social Studies curriculum, the outcry has at least buried the first draft. I submitted an alternate proposal the other day- since they are taking feedback still, and I didn’t like the thought of having to teach some of that offal.
As for educational “research” I have some serious doubts- the research usually doesn’t match what I see in my classroom. I think that quite a bit of the research is skewed to back up the researcher’s thesis- because in order to get research grants, and continue a career as a researcher, you have to get results.