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The Greatest Education Error of All Time? « Diane Ravitch's blog

The Greatest Education Error of All Time? « Diane Ravitch's blog:


The Greatest Education Error of All Time?

Justin Snider has written an interesting article in the Hechinger Report.
What if we find out years from now that whatever we are doing is simply wrong?
Why are we doing so many things now in education that have no evidence to support them?
If this were medicine instead of education, would anyone tolerate the experimentation that is being done to the entire population?
I actually think we know more than