Behind the Headline: There Is No FDA For Education. Maybe There Should Be

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Behind the Headline: There Is No FDA For Education. Maybe There Should Be
Education Next, 2016/03/10
We get this sort of sentiment a lot. It's the thinking behind initiatives like the Campbell Collaboration which postulate that innovation in education should be (more or less) completely evidence-based. So here we have "NPR’s Eric Westervelt talks with Harvard education researcher Tom Kane about how and why American education research has mostly languished in an echo chamber for much of the last half century." First of all, who cares that it's a Harvard education researcher? Second, what do they mean by "American educational research"? It's not like there's one big monolith. More...