Ed Schools. The Primordial Soup of Fads, Fraud, and Folly
If It Quacks Like a Duck, It's Probably Baloney. A compilation of nutty notions that infect progressivist-doiminated schools of education and, through constant repetition, turn bright and well-meaning ed students into imbeciles.
Ed School Cults. Ed schools dominated by "progressives" have many of the features of cults. This helps to explain how ed schools create and sustain a collective delusional thought world that is impervious to change in the face of scientific research and common sense.
Ed School Pageants. The continual round of conferences and workshops, mission statements that promise social justice and life-long learning for everyone, well-crafted yearly reports. These are the most proficient activivities in ed schools. They are the mask that hides the fact that ed students graduate not knowing how to teach.
Constructivism. Constructivism is a "pedagogy" (theory of education) from which most "progressive" education fads and frauds derive: whole language, fuzzy math, discovery learning, teachers as "guides on the side," portfolio assessment. Constructivism is nonsense that fits well in a postmodern world where so many persons feel oppressed by such quaint notions as Truth, Evidence, Logic, Proof, Body of Knowledge, Wrong.
The Laziest People on Earth. University perfessers? Nooooooo.
Waking Dream. Another take on the notion that progressivist-dominated schools create and sustain a shared delusion system.
"We Don't CARE About Data." Project Follow Through was the largest and longest education evaluation ever. Over 100,000 children were involved. It turned out that Direct Instruction produced the highest achievement in reading, math, spelling, and the highest self-esteem--in contrast to the progressive education models pitted against DI. Result? Until states adopted accountability standards and No Child Left Behind became law (and results began to matter), DI was shunned, rejected, and demonized by the ed establishment. Why? In part because DI basically says, "Teaching kids well is not a big mystery. We already know exactly how to do it--efficiently and inexpensively." If the ed establishment bought that, they would be out of business in a week. All their fads and flapdoodle would be obvious to everyone.
Edubabble. You can't expect a field to produce effective curricula and teaching methods, and to conduct credible evaluations of itself, when its members speak as if they were demented. Can you?
Project Follow Through, and the Knaves, Rascals, and Eaters of Broken Meats. This epistle reveals the combination of duncitude, arrogance, and ideology that characterize the "mental" processes and bizarre decision-making of quacks in Edland. They go to great and perverse lengths to ensure that educationally correct (progressive) methods are used despite evidence that they do not work.
Reason, Madness, Flapdoodle. This amazing screed reveals that the intellectual squalor that infests public education is NOT because ed perfessers read too little or are a bit biased in their thinking. No. The reason is that progressive educators--who dominate the field--are simply dummies.
Talking Heads. How progressivist-dominated ed schools refuse to change.
Ed School Mission Statements. Stupid AND Nauseating.
The Halls of WakaWaka. The infantilization of ed students.
More From the Halls of WakaWaka.
Stupidity Innoculation. A letter to ed students
A Letter to Future School Admninistrators.
A letter to Ed Students. Another letter to ed students