This rings true. One of the challenges in creating true (and effective) vocational education systems in America is the lack of real governance levers in the system. We try to do everything via funding.
Great article. I would like to point out that there is a concerted effort in medical schools to break down the current systems of accountability that you discuss in the name of dressing student anxiety and equity.
Great piece, and thanks for the shout outs. I will just add one detail: only 8 states have published details on curriculum usage openly. We're pretty far from half! https://substack.com/@karenvaites/p-158730228
Otherwise, I'm looking forward to parts II and III. I hope you will explore allllll the regulations that we do impose on schools in depth. Schools do face a regulation burden... on basically everything BUT instruction.
I read a lot of articles like this but none of them say _why_. Why did everyone abandon phonics? I lived in SF during the algebra debacle and it seemed like the reason for it was that the district and the school board was full of idiots but - there has to be a better reason than that.
Education seems to be especially full of dummies. More than other fields. Is that actually possible? It can’t be.
This rings true. One of the challenges in creating true (and effective) vocational education systems in America is the lack of real governance levers in the system. We try to do everything via funding.
Great article. I would like to point out that there is a concerted effort in medical schools to break down the current systems of accountability that you discuss in the name of dressing student anxiety and equity.
Great piece, and thanks for the shout outs. I will just add one detail: only 8 states have published details on curriculum usage openly. We're pretty far from half! https://substack.com/@karenvaites/p-158730228
Otherwise, I'm looking forward to parts II and III. I hope you will explore allllll the regulations that we do impose on schools in depth. Schools do face a regulation burden... on basically everything BUT instruction.
Masterly. Makes me very glad to work in the English system where there was a concerted, long term effort to address all these issues.
Just FYI, I called the curriculum landscape "frankly bananas" in this reported story, and Karen Vaites was quoting me! https://hollykorbey.substack.com/p/my-kingdom-for-a-reliable-curriculum
I hate to misattribute the bananas quote. Fix incoming! Ty!
Haha, thanks. Calling things bananas is my superpower.
Any ideas how to get anyone involved in Oregon politics to read this and comprehend it?
We're working on that! 😉
Greetings from the Oregon Association for Talented and Gifted, www.oatag.org
I read a lot of articles like this but none of them say _why_. Why did everyone abandon phonics? I lived in SF during the algebra debacle and it seemed like the reason for it was that the district and the school board was full of idiots but - there has to be a better reason than that.
Education seems to be especially full of dummies. More than other fields. Is that actually possible? It can’t be.