Professor Douglas Carnine
This report by Professor Douglas Carnine explains why education experts tend to ignore research-based practices and instead embrace constructivist methods that are not backed by good research. Carnine writes that a defining feature of a 'mature profession', such medicine or the law, is a willingness to engage with research findings and that in order to improve education needs to be more open to evidence-based change.
The first section of this essay provides examples from reading and mathematics curricula that show education experts dispensing unproven methods and flitting from one fad to another. The following sections show how public impatience has forced other professions to 'grow up' and accept accountability and scientific evidence. The paper concludes with a plea to develop education into a mature, evidence-based profession.
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