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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with Education schools is that faculty cannot get tenure by publishing a paper confirming that Phonics works or that sleeping with the text under student’s pillow does not work. They only can get tenure by publishing papers saying current methods are bad and proposing some (seemingly new, but really already disproven) alternate approach. Another issue, one common with social sciences, is that research is almost never duplicated, in part because the original papers do not provide enough detail for another person to duplicate the experiment. This is very very different from Physics or Chemistry where such duplication is common and normal. [/quote]+1 There is also a lot of money to be made from successfully pushing a new curriculum.[/quote]
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