The decline in the education system began long ago, and partly because the educational establishment chose to suppress the results of Project Follow Through, part of LBJ's War on Poverty. Project Follow Through was the largest educational experiment ever conducted, and it led to clear evidence about which educational tactics were effective in producing large outcomes for disadvantaged students. Unfortunately for all of us, those programs producing the largest gains were systematic, skills-based pedagogies that were, by the 1960s and 1970s, targeted for criticism by the growing progressive educational elite. This included Siegfried Engelmann's Direct Instruction, which outperformed every other teaching method, producing not only strong academic gains, but increased self-esteem as well. The educational establishment's decision to ignore the results of this large scale study is a historical tragedy.
Excellent description of the decline in education and how colleges are overrun with administrators who have no knowledge of real education tools, only activism.
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The decline in the education system began long ago, and partly because the educational establishment chose to suppress the results of Project Follow Through, part of LBJ's War on Poverty. Project Follow Through was the largest educational experiment ever conducted, and it led to clear evidence about which educational tactics were effective in producing large outcomes for disadvantaged students. Unfortunately for all of us, those programs producing the largest gains were systematic, skills-based pedagogies that were, by the 1960s and 1970s, targeted for criticism by the growing progressive educational elite. This included Siegfried Engelmann's Direct Instruction, which outperformed every other teaching method, producing not only strong academic gains, but increased self-esteem as well. The educational establishment's decision to ignore the results of this large scale study is a historical tragedy.
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Thank you, once again, for such an informative segment.
Excellent description of the decline in education and how colleges are overrun with administrators who have no knowledge of real education tools, only activism.