If you’ve ever wondered why education seems doomed to repeat itself—why each decade brings another “new” idea that’s really just an old one with different branding—you’ll appreciate what Doug Carnine has to say.
Carnine, a longtime advocate for evidence-based teaching (and a guest on a very popular episode of Progressively Incorrect), argues that our field has never truly become a profession. While medicine, aviation, and engineering stopped reverting to disproven practices generations ago, education keeps swinging back and forth on a pendulum of fads.
His call to action is clear: it’s time to build the same kind of guardrails that keep other professions anchored in evidence and effective practices.
Stopping the Pendulum: Making Education a Research-Based Profession
By Douglas Carnine
Discredited ideas don’t return to most professions.
In the distant past, surgeons did not wash their hands before performing surgery. Once sterile technique was settled science, it was incorporated into practice with no turning back…
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