{"id":633,"date":"2013-04-29T08:54:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T00:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/?p=633"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:12:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:12:49","slug":"evidence-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/evidence-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence in Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timharford.com\/2013\/04\/an-evidence-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This article by Tim Harford<\/a> should be compulsory reading for every teacher, educational administrator and politician.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He points out that in education today, there&#8217;s a lot of talk about methodologies, very little about figuring out what methodologies actually work. He paints a picture of what evidence-based education <em>could<\/em> be like &#8211; with trainee teachers taught by practicing teachers who were also researchers, with classroom teachers feeding back useful research questions to people in a position to conduct experiments, with &#8220;best practice&#8221;, namely &#8220;what is shown by evidence to work&#8221; spreading from school to school.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article by Tim Harford should be compulsory reading for every teacher, educational administrator and politician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[458,557,303],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}