"you’d think that decisions involving the billions of dollars we spend implementing public education curricula would have been informed by evidence. After all, the very lives of our nation’s children are at stake."
At least in Ontario, attempts to measure the efficacy of our publicly funded primary and secondary school systems against *any objective* have been met with righteous fury and rebuffed with extreme prejudice by the teachers' unions as well as many of the school board educrats. Evidence-based decision making requires data and numeracy, concepts that those same groups routinely condem as colonial, patriarchal, or racist.
"you’d think that decisions involving the billions of dollars we spend implementing public education curricula would have been informed by evidence. After all, the very lives of our nation’s children are at stake."
At least in Ontario, attempts to measure the efficacy of our publicly funded primary and secondary school systems against *any objective* have been met with righteous fury and rebuffed with extreme prejudice by the teachers' unions as well as many of the school board educrats. Evidence-based decision making requires data and numeracy, concepts that those same groups routinely condem as colonial, patriarchal, or racist.
People who benefit from a system are not best described as unbiased. Evoking "it's all about kids" is should a sham.