Why Can't Education Progress Like Medicine Does? by Robert E. Slavin

Why Can't Education Progress Like Medicine Does?
Robert E. Slavin
 
I recently saw an end-of-year article in The Washington Post called "19 Good Things That Happened in 2019." Four of them were medical or public health breakthroughs. Scientists announced a new therapy for cystic fibrosis likely to benefit 90% of people with this terrible disease, incurable for most patients before now. The World Health Organization announced a new vaccine to prevent Ebola. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that deaths of children before their fifth birthday have now dropped from 82 per thousand births in 1990 to 37 in 2019. The Centers for Disease Control reported a decline of 5.1 percent in deaths from drug overdoses in just one year, from 2017 to 2018.

Needless to say, breakthroughs in education did not make the list. In fact, I'll bet there has never been an education breakthrough mentioned on such lists.
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