I've noticed that "research-based" or "research-backed" is the euphemism for "not evidence-based" (i.e., never proven to work in scientifically designed studies)

The highly educated affluent parents aren't understanding the homework and neither are the kids. Imagine the EL parents!

From the Scarsdale Board of Education slides go.boarddocs.com/ny/scarsdale...

They learn math facts through non-evidence-based number talks, not that horrible "memorization".

Don't worry - Scarsdale is mainly ultra-affluent, and those kids will have no problem getting supplemental instruction outside of school. Meanwhile, the rest of the kids get 💩

Virginia math ed is winning left and right! Hooray for accelerated math. Virginia is #1 in the nation now for state level action encouraging accelerated math, thanks to 2 new things I advocated strenuously for. www.realcleareducation.com/articles/202...

From what I understand from someone involved, much of what will be cut is Geometry content.

The governor's budget amendments this week edited the language in the budget largely consistent with adding "evidence-based" qualifiers to those additional math ed funds, as called for in my article. It's likely the legislature will approve such edits. www.baconsrebellion.com/how-to-spend...

And if you think this was just a cohort issue, the kids in summer school who did PBL for reading did show some very slight improvement. The school system has scrapped PBL now for its summer program.

Here's the results of a local school district that had Project-Based Learning last summer for their summer program for struggling learners. The kids that took the program did worse than kids identified for summer school who did not do summer school.

The reform method has never been truly tried before. The teachers aren't teaching it right.