Research Keeps Showing This Kind Of Teaching Is Very Effective. So Why Won’t Schools Use It? by Joy Pullman

Research Keeps Showing This Kind Of Teaching Is Very Effective. So Why Won’t Schools Use It? 

Rather than specific, concrete, knowledge-focused, systematically constructed, and carefully tested, the dominant methods teacher’s colleges pass on and state licensure requirements reinforce are open-ended, abstract, leaderless or leader-lite, focused on process instead of content, descended from romantic ideology rather than proven experience, and so on.

It's been shown that Classically-inspired "Direct Instruction" actually works. Yet all the incentives motivating the educational "blob" point in the opposite direction.