Action Research: Why are we still declining in Education

 

 

This week in my graduate "research" course, I was reading about the importance of conducting action research in order to improve student achievement. In one of my readings I read that the U.S. government is putting a huge emphasis on student achievement scores.  This emphasis in return is creating districts to develop achievement incentives for principals and teachers to perform high test scores.  Now, action research makes available to everyone, especially teachers, data today for tomorrow's instruction.  Meaning, research can result data and information as fast as today and now, for tomorrow's use.  We live in the era of information!!! We are able to test and diagnose an illness, a problem, and deficiencies now and have a solution or result in a short time frame.  What I can't seem to understand is, if we are able to diagnose the problem of instruction or learning deficiency... Why are we as a country 17th in world education rankings?  We know how to perform research and data tells us what's the problem and how to fix it... Why then are we still lacking behind other countries in education.

 

 Check this site: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/best-education-in-the-wor_n_2199795.html