Your lack of script is killing us: How applying engineering to new domains can save lives and edcuate the world.

The talk will explore how scripts, experiments, checklists, and quality control can educate and save lives. Explore the history of the cure for scurvy and the role checklists have come to play in modern surgery. Learn about Project Follow Through, the largest educational experiment ever performed. See the data on Direct Instruction (DI), the method that demonstrated it could bridge the educational gap between low social economic status and middle class kids. Developed by Zig Engelmann, DI is a curriculum engineered to teach all children. DI goes against the grain of modern education by grouping kids based on skill and rate of learning, teaching to mastery not the test, and building feedback and accountability into all levels of the system. DI was empirically proven to work at teaching children, but yet it failed politically. Why?

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