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by dcolkitt 1217 days ago
But this isn't just a case of politicians arbitrarily shackling teachers. Research has shown time and time again that standardizing curriculum results in better educational outcomes, particularly at the lower end of students and schools.

In fact the evidence consistently shows that direct instruction is by far more effective than any other major pedagogical framework.[1] And this literally involves the teacher reading from a pre-packaged script.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8476697/

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...It also happens to be the only method conducive to quantitative sampling methods at the expense of all qualitative evidence of the times it didn't work.

One size fits all education is literally the propagation of inequality.