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Stephen Downes

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Good well-reasoned article interpreting PISA testing results in the light of differences in socio-economic status. The reasoning, and the conclusions, are in line with my own thinking. Lien Pham writes,  "Resources are important, but just because a school has a wide variety of resources doesn't mean all of its students will benefit from those equally... policy attention to improve educational inequality should place student agency and diversity at the forefront, rather than focussing on resources with the assumption that all students will be able to access them in similar ways with similar outcomes."

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