Opinion: Why Is Education so Fad-Prone? 4 Reasons Schools Can’t Resist the Shiny New Thing

A version of this essay originally appeared on “The Next 30 Years” Substack. Every few years, education seems to discover something new that will finally fix schools — a new framework, a new approach, a new way of thinking about teaching and learning. It arrives with urgency and conviction, spreads quickly, reshapes pr…