ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

@mattT @mguhlin @edutooter @edutooters There is absolutely an entire industry, curriculum, tech, PD in education running on limited to no research that offers simple solutions to complicated problems, and then blames teachers for failures.
Completely undermines teachers and improvement and serves to make money at the cost of children.

@bluecerealeducation @cara__jackson you know they will come up with some not so smart packaging like WHITE- like White History is the End all and don't forget that Arizona and Florida will probably start it all with their history of repressive curriculum.

@mguhlin @edutooter @edutooters I appreciate the evidence base component, but as I think more about education accessible research especially in the context of equity focused instruction, I see a more complex landscape that increasingly requires educators to be critical evaluators and curators of resources. A few thoughts.
1) I am weary of the #Edutainer class who will often pervert, twist, water down, and otherwise undermine research for the primary purpose of capitalizing and effectively promoting carceral pedagogy and junk science. I think of even well intended effort in this area like ideas such as "grit" that become essentialized and potentially violent.
2) I think it is important to recognize the wide range of types of research available and how descriptive and applied it is. We often have large RCT type studies that make general statements (as they should, for example, reading 20 mins a day bla bla), but these studies don't tell us what reading might work best, and work well when connected to finer grained studies that are more descriptive.
3) Lastly, but perhaps most importantly, we as educators need to have a critical perspective and frame when looking at any research... Who wrote it? What was their motivation? whose voices are included or excluded from the research? what are the limitations of the research? How are participants positioned included/excluded? What is the nature of the research design is it done "at" participants or in partnership?

All to say, educators have a lot of work to sift through stuff, and they may or may not have the tools to do so, which raises questions about how we can beat equip eductors to be well positioned to do so.

@mguhlin he promised some immigration reform too right? Voter rights reform?

@mguhlin @edutooter @edutooters
I have think this depends on the type of educators. Researchers have access to journals if they work in IHEs, but those are often not accessible to teachers and K-12 educators. I find professional organizations like NCTE, NCTM, NSTA, often are good sources, but often behind on equity work, and other organizations do a better job of that. I am also mindful of educators who publish high quality books that are great like Richard Milner, Ilana Horn, Gholdy Muhammad, and many others.