While I'm used to hearing people express this perspective in relation to SoR, this is an article about AI in education. The fact that education has a problematic relationship with research & evidence is something many teachers have known for a long time. Finally people with power are realizing it.

(3/3) If ed profs were held accountable in this way, I think we'd see a drastic re-orientation of ed prof focus towards things that are actually do-able and effective in the classroom. So many of the past mistakes coming out of ed academia were due to the lack of this type of accountability.

(2/3) Medical residents observe their attending physicians treating patients all the time. This ensures attendings only advise residents to do things that they themselves can actually do effectively.

(2/2)...students arrive in my class w/ major skills & knowledge gaps after years of CPM Math and OpenSciEd (which are "all green" on EdReports). Many admins believe in EdReports, and it's hard to convince them of its flaws. I think EdReports augmenting their ratings in this way is a great solution.

Please forward freely! I'd love to hear from teachers, coaches, principals, central office staff, bus drivers, researchers, teacher educators, etc.

Thank you so much, and I appreciate you sharing your ideas! forms.gle/S1PqEn2B6Hik...

What types of journalists should be reporting on curricula? I'm not a literacy teacher, I'm a science teacher, but I see a lot the term "research-based" used a lot in incorrect ways to justify problematic curricula. If a journalist wants to look into this, what "reasearch background" do they need?

It kind of reminds me of how H & R Block lobbies lawmakers to keep the tax code super-complicated. I think there's a similar thing going on in K-12 science education.

Me too! However, I think that standards should be written in a way that doesn't require tons of unpacking.The NGSS are so impossible to decipher, they require years of work to "unpack." Many of the biggest proponents of the NGSS are people who have built careers on training teachers to unpack them.

I agree 100%, & based on the training I've received over the past few years from people in these classroom-adjacent roles, they seem to forget how little time we have to do any actual thinking or work. They train us to do things like "unpacking standards" that we have literally zero time to do.

I know this is an old thread, but thank you for explaining all this. Very interesting! I have a lot of qualms with the NGSS, but I do love that it mandates a broad range of science content at all grade levels. But, like you say, no one with power over curriculum going to care until it's tested.

I would like to be added

Studies that flipped this concept, focusing on teaching more science content to students in the early primary grades, found that the greater amount of vocabulary & general knowledge did raise student reading levels & not just in science, but with reading comprehension, overall! (3/5) #EduSky