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S2E9: Jay McTighe on how to 'backward design' educational nirvana

Rethinking Education

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The Educational Nirvana Experience

In the late 80s, there was an emergence nationally in the US of the quote standards base movement. This actually was launched by a presidential commission. My own children went through Maryland schools during that era. And I saw the impact of the state performance assessments on their learning. If you get the assessment right, if you're driving everything else to the right ends, it can drive everything else. That was a huge impact on my learning and last part of this is my career. But I would really like to get you back on at some point to go into this educational Nirvana experience"

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