College students are paying hefty tuitions for being taught reliable knowledge. Employers are constantly stating they want graduates who are good problem solvers and decision makers. Students also need this knowledge to be successful in their personal affairs.
But here is the situation. A group of top educators are perpetuating a powerful false concept that the […]
Why does the media fail to point out our top educators as the basic reason for the ills of education? In my educational research over the last 16 years I have carefully analyzed what is wrong with education. The basic fault is not “bad teachers” and “bad schools” but “bad top educational leaders.” It is […]
In the course of a day you make hundreds of simple decisions and problem solutions, usually based on your intuition. They are called by such names as:
Intuitive decision
Jumping to a conclusion
Instantaneous decision
Hasty decision
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It is well known that our urban schools are below average on tests and achievement. Most often this is blamed on bad schools, bad teachers, bad unions, and bad school administration. Occasionally there are good articles explaining some of the reasons for this condition, but most often these are ignored. Under the No Child Left […]
Our top educational leaders are ignoring the fact that educational research is research that follows the scientific method. Today’s professors, on the whole, seem not to be teaching research students the scientific method.
In the 1960s and 1970s this wasn’t the case. Professor George J. Mouly of the University of Miami wrote The Science of Educational […]
The blunder has caused the failure to include the scientific method - the complete method of creative problem solving and decision making for all fields - in all of our national education reform programs since their inception in 1957. In particular, the National Science Education Standards (1995) excluded the scientific method in favor of “science […]
On November 2, 2005 an article appeared in the New York Times with the title “Are Schools Passing or Failing? Now There’s a Third Choice . . . Both.”
Testing students has been a mess in recent years. Times reporter Michael Winerip compares the testing results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress and the testing […]
I have reviewed only some of the areas in which great harm has resulted from the scientific method blunder. It has caused our scientists to learn the method of science mostly by the apprentice method…but at least they learn it. However, the other 99% of the population learns very little about it. The scientific method […]
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