Personal & Professional Education Discussion
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The push for data-driven instruction can sometimes feel at odds with empowering educators to exercise their professional judgement. We read the story of one Kansas district that attempted to implement a new system for helping students. A push for data and numbers seemed to push out all the other sources of information, undermining their ability to help those students.
Later, we see a nation-wide bump in ADHD diagnoses for the youngest students who start school each year. This bump might be the result of a school age cut-off, rather than anything medical.
Finally, we get some book recommendations and context on Third Culture Kids in the Peer Review.
Cover image by Good Eye Might.
Ng, J. C., Stull, D. D., & Martinez, R. S. (2019). What if Only What Can Be Counted Will Count? A Critical Examination of Making Educational Practice “Scientific”. Teachers College Record, 121(2), n2.
Layton, T. J., Barnett, M. L., Hicks, T. R., & Jena, A. B. (2018). Attention deficit–hyperactivity disorder and month of school enrollment. New England Journal of Medicine, 379(22), 2122-2130.
We drink Dragon’s Milk White, a bourbon barrel-aged white stout from New Holland Brewing in Holland, MI.