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| − | The 'global education reform movement', or GERM as it has become known by critics, is pushing radical changes on school systems around the world.<br>
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| − | To imagine the changes envisaged by the corporate education industry requires that you put aside the notion that a publicly funded education will remain something delivered in a school by teachers and provided by the state.
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| − | Testing has become more prevalent and important in classrooms, with heads and teachers being judged, and financially penalised in some cases, on an increasingly narrow set of standards. The focus on 'standardised testing' suits large corporate providers of education services operating across borders, but not children.
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| − | Technology is increasingly being used to teach, test and track students’ progress. While technology can be a useful tool among many, some education reformers see it as a way of making schools more efficient, and cheaper. Computer-based approaches to learning require far fewer teachers per student, some suggest half as many teachers or even fewer. To some advocates on the right, technology is a way of usurping teacher control of education.
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| − | ‘The world is in the early stages of a historic transformation in how students learn, teachers teach, and schools and school systems are organised’, according to two advocates of this ‘revolution’, [[John Chubb]] and [[Terry Moe]] of the US conservative [[Hoover Institution]]. Their 2009 book, ''Liberating Learning'', details how technology will deliver this transformation through: its ‘seeping-in’ to existing schools; virtual schooling; new education providers; data systems designed to monitor teacher performance; and its ‘slow but inexorable undermining of the political power of the teachers unions’. The UK's arch-reformer, former education secretary, [[Michael Gove]] describes ''Liberating Learning'' as an ‘excellent book’.
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| − | Such radical reforms have been subject to little public debate and have no democratic mandate. They are also largely unsupported by evidence that they raise standards in schools. Why then have such reforms taken hold? What part are lobbying and influence campaigns playing in persuading governments to adopt this particular reform agenda? And how are the changes being sold to citizens, teachers and parents?
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