Monthly Archive for May, 2010

If ya haven’t already done so, I recommend that you read Dan Willingham’s discussion about the assertion, most recently proposed by Newsweek editor Sharon Begley (“Second-Class Science: Education research gets an F.“), that educational research has little or no value. Dan, who’s no friend of schlock science, mounts a reasoned defense and then springs ahead to suggestions about how to make things better. You can read his analysis under Is education research all dreck? — Willingham in the Washington Post’s “The Answer Sheet.”