Trust Nothing You Hear from the Education Establishment
by pwceducationreform
When it comes to education we parents have to trust that the teachers and education administrators in our public school systems won’t do anything that will harm our children. While I think most of our classroom teachers have our children’s best interests at heart, I doubt everything I hear from the education administrators & bureaucrats.
I’m sorry to say that, but I have seen far too much evidence that the education administrators at the local, state, and federal level are corrupt and will willingly and knowingly lie or distort facts, to trust a word they say anymore. Unfortunately, debunking their lies usually requires a degree of professional skepticism coupled with a willingness to dig into and understand details, something our elected officials are unwilling or unable to do.
The net effect is that the corrupt liars are setting education policy in this county, state, and country and our children are suffering because of it.
Here’s the latest in a long string of examples.
Educational Malpractice For the Sake of Reform Math, is the story of Professor Milgram’s experience in preparing and publishing a critique of a study done by Jo Boaler (Stanford) and Megan Staples (Purdue). Boaler and Staples’ study claimed that students taught Algebra under the Interactive Mathematics Program, a reform math program, learned more math than students taught under more traditional instructional programs. Because Boaler and Staples study indicated that everything being taught in US schools was wrong, the US Dept of Education asked Dr Milgram to review the study. Dr Milgram and his colleagues determined that Boaler and Staples study wasn’t worth the paper it was
