Reducing good teachers to a single test
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Mackenzie
Mackenzie advised the makers of OxyContin, a highly addictive painkiller. They told them how to turbocharge sales in the lead up to the U.S. opioid addiction epidemic. Mackenzie is also saying that taking their best teachers isn't a silver bullet. Somehow that becomes the basis for what is kind of myth-making in education policy in Australia. It's led to this kind of preoccupation,. I think, in Australian education policy since 2007, 2008, that we're still trying to untangle.
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