I was at a meeting last night where someone declared that “we know what works in American education, “that research based best practices” are the answer. <\/p>\n
There are 38,100 exact hits in google for this phrase. This phrase is embedded in the No Child Left Behind Act and occurs throughout the National Reading Panel’s work. <\/p>\n
Despite the apparent consensus that these practices not only exist, but that they are the solution, do schools continue to fail because: <\/p>\n
of improper implementation? <\/p>\n
They (local school districts, teacher unions, communists) won’t let us do it? <\/p>\n
Bizarre. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was at a meeting last night where someone declared that “we know what works in American education, “that research based best practices” are the answer. There are 38,100 exact hits in google for this phrase. This phrase is embedded in the No Child Left Behind Act and occurs throughout the National Reading Panel’s work. … Continue reading no margin for error<\/span>