Cheating our children: Suspicious school test scores across the nation

Re:Cheating our children: Suspicious school test scores acro... by DanBC on Sunday March 25, 2012 @05:16PM (#3753844)

> How about giving them the freedom to teach based on what they feel is good for their students?

The controversy about teaching children to read using either 'whole words' or 'phonics' (and sub-forms of phonics) is a nice example of some teachers not working to an evidence base and causing harm to their students.

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Re:Cheating our children: Suspicious school test scores acro... by saulrh on Sunday March 25, 2012 @05:45PM (#3753941)

Even if they aren't teaching from an evidence base and from proper research, they're better at defining requirements than the legislators simply because they're the ones in the classroom and observing their students' progress. I assume you're a programmer, so I'll reframe the question: would you rather design your APIs yourself or have the CEO of your large corporation do it for you?

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Re:Cheating our children: Suspicious school test scores acro... by DanBC on Sunday March 25, 2012 @05:51PM (#3753959)

You know that doctors say that this treatment works, because they see it works.

And then someone does a double-blind controlled trial and it turns out that treatment is useless.

(http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa013259)

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