The Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data about schools each year.
The Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data about schools each year.
No, you’re pointing to the silver lining on a bad decision.
Gathering the the data isn’t the problem. The data is supposed to lead to more funding where it’s needed…but the same group killing the research is also very very very against funding education. It’s only a useless endeavor because they make sure it’s useless.
Keep the studies but address the problems it reveals.
I’m not sure keeping the studies is such a great thing either. A big chunk of it is standardized testing, and it would be really nice to have far less of that in schools. Granted, this will not address the problem of standardized testing.
I don’t think data and studies should ever be buried. I do think we need to do a better job of exposing this data as nothing more than scattered tea leaves, with no validity to it. Just because someone spent lots of money collecting numbers, doesn’t mean those numbers reflect anything real. And yes billions of dollars and hours of time can be spent collecting ‘data’, but the cost doesn’t mean it’s reflective of any truth.