“I’ve never seen an industry adopt so many failed fads so quickly and throw them out when they don’t produce results”
You must not live in the US. Here, the schools LOOK for fads that fail, and then double-down on them. At most, they simply rename the failed fad - such as now calling Whole Language (a totally discredited way to teach reading that was adopted universally and religiously by the ‘education community’) - they now call “Whole Language” >> “Sight Words” and the even the most informed parents think that things are better now.
...so go figure.
I’m most definitely in the USA. My sister has been teaching math to middle and high school kids for 45 years and she’s kept me informed of every fad to come down the pike. Usually things get so bad so quickly, they the fad and introduce a new one before the old one has even reached room temperature. Fad after fad after fad, jargon after jargon. More bad turgid, incomprehensible jargon to replace the old turgid jargon.
I thought business was bad the last 30 years! It’s 100 times worse in education.