I don’t necessarily disagree with either of these sentiments – in my experience the jaw-droppingly brain-dead things I’ve seen in my own children’s education tend to come from a county/state school-board level – but in practical terms it amounts to the same thing. When I say that we need evidence-based education, we need it at all levels: the design of the curriculum, the implementation, the adoption, the funding…
… silly politics and “common sense” can destroy things at all levels.
