This is a great explanation - and explains much of what is wrong when many policymakers get intimately involved in prescriptive education policy. Any NP exec who wants to earn some cash from eager donors can take something like this, get business-minded funders excited, and distill it into just the sort of one-pager policymakers love - complete with soundbites and even some "early evidence" that it works. Does it help kids? Not really- does it make the NP exec money and get the politician re-elected? Yes - 1000 times yes.
This is an important post for all educators to read, especially those decision-makers whose inclination is to manage schools using business models while ignoring the human variables that impact learning.
This is a great explanation - and explains much of what is wrong when many policymakers get intimately involved in prescriptive education policy. Any NP exec who wants to earn some cash from eager donors can take something like this, get business-minded funders excited, and distill it into just the sort of one-pager policymakers love - complete with soundbites and even some "early evidence" that it works. Does it help kids? Not really- does it make the NP exec money and get the politician re-elected? Yes - 1000 times yes.
This is an important post for all educators to read, especially those decision-makers whose inclination is to manage schools using business models while ignoring the human variables that impact learning.