David:
Thanks for this. Just back from crazy travels and it’s nice to sit down and review something that someone else has clearly put a lot of thinking into!
I broadly agree with your thesis but would have two overarching comments:
without a top-down change in incentives, we are never going to get the education system we need. IMHO this means a complete change in terms of what we define as success - so that we think about the whole child - and a move towards all of the things that Andreas Schleicher likes and which we are talking about at Big Change. Peter Hyman et. al.’s work on Rethinking Assessment is also relevant. This does not mean that innovation should be top-down, to be clear - if you change the incentives, then your model perhaps becomes even more powerful as we migrate to a system fit for the future.Â
A key ingredient in the system should be government-regulated open interoperability standards for education technology. These encourage bottom-up innovation by ensuring organisations compete on pedagogy, not access to data. My age-old view on this is here.Â
Hope this helps - happy to chat through. And Happy Holidays!
Cheers,
Nick
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