Contradiction Between Knowing & Doing In Education
Much is known about what works and what doesn’t in education. The biggest problem — at least in relation to the goal of at least equipping students with the basic skills of reading and math — is the huge gap between certain populations exhibiting or not exhibiting those skills. Consistently, poor and minority students are left behind. And, they disproportionately are the clienteles of the criminal justice systems.
No need to look for neuroscientific magic bullets in reading and math. There is considerable research and evidence to correct those lags now.
Our popular BC radio broadcaster and economist, Michael Campbell, pointed out these contradictions this weekend in face of the US election results:
• 2.3 million Americans are behind bars, 40% are black, while they are only 13% in the general population.
• That inner city schools are a disaster is a failure of the establishment elites to drop politics and work on behalf of these forgotten and dispossessed.
While Campbell rages about education contradictions here and in the US he is completely stumped as to why there is no uprising against the education elite. Over the last year of his broadcasts he correctly foresaw both Brexit and the Trump election as reactions against political establishments. What will it take for a shakeup and correction in the education establishment?
[posted in Educhatter, https://educhatter.wordpress.com/2016/11/12/crap-detection-in-teaching-how-do-we-separate-the-good-brain-science-from-the-bad/#comment-20960]