FreshEd #311 – Unpacking the Learning Crisis (Michele Schweisfurth)
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Is Data the Answer to the Problem of Quality Education?
I think one of the particular logics that is inescapable within some international organizations is that data will give the answer. And, you know, for example, with the World Bank's Teach Initiative where data is being gathered on what teachers are doing in the classroom. It was troubling to see how that stepping into classrooms, that particular intervention then became sort of monolithic. I just don't know why that happens. You know, this narrowed understanding of pedagogy from some of these organizations and that drive to try and measure it, which then sort of further narrows it.
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