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Stephen Downes

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We've seen calls in Canada for 'education reform' that looks a lot like the American Common Core focus on instructivism, core content, and a lot of testing. The promise was that it would improve outcomes, but Diane Ravich reports on a study that shows it produced the opposite. "National NAEP scores flatlined, and scores for the poorest kids dropped. Here is the latest from New York, which embraced the Common Core wholeheartedly. Since the introduction of the Common Core, the proportion of students in New York who scored zero on the state writing tests has doubled. In addition, the achievement gap has grown."

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