The focus on standardised tests and cash incentives for teachers has not produced better outcomes for regional students, so why do we keep doing it?
If the common definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome, then education policymakers must be insane.on progress to reduce rural-urban inequities in education highlighted the persistent achievement gap, the significant staffing shortages and the difficulties in access to services to support student health and wellbeing. It could be a repeat of any progress report of the past 50 years.
Instead, inequity seems to have increased. Strangely, Australia seems to have observed these policy failures and doubled down on failed approaches and a narrowing of the measures of success. Rather than upskilling teachers or engaging in more complex forms of assessment that modern technology affords, we instead see increasing reference to explicit instruction, preprepared lesson materials and evidence-based practices, where what counts as evidence is increasingly narrow.
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