In medical research any new medical or intervention requires research talk and listen to patients, health professionals, and family. New medicines or treatments are only approved with collecting taking and listening to your subjects. It is not considered soft data, it is crucial data, so vital it would shut any approval process down without it. This is good science. I question any Education Research intervention that does not listen and talk to children, teachers, and parents. This isn't soft data, this is necessary and vital data.
In education research, no one talks or listens to children, teachers, or parents and guardians. Imagine if we asked parents:
How do you feel about class size?
how do you feel about less art, music, and play?
How do you feel about some children getting everything needed, and others are given less?
What if we asked children about all this testing down to them?
Would they ask for more?
Would they understand why adults want to rank them?
Would they ask for less art, music, and play to make room for testing?
What if we asked teachers:
Would smaller class sizes help?
Would better school and classroom libraries help?
Would less testing give you more time for teaching?
Is it fair that predominantly white schools get 21 billion dollars more every year than poor predominately schools of color?
Would student loan forgiveness help,
Would Better benefits and pay help?
Would professional respect for teachers help?
There is good science and poor science,
Good science talks and listens,
Bad Science pretends listening doesn't matter.
I question any education science that does not talk and listen to children, teachers, parents, and guardians.
Respectfully, Dr. Jesse P. Turner
CCSU Literacy Center Director
If you want to know what inspired my blog today? It was the Play For Change Cover of Teach Your Children song https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/235655313607365412/6193250921375836163
Jesse - You are amazing!
ReplyDeleteELP