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Wednesday, 3 September 2014

Looking beyond the 3Rs



In a startling move, educators across Canada are about to tackle this – develop objective ways to actually measure how well a school promotes creativity, social skills, citizenship, a positive school climate and students’ physical and mental health.

If they pull it off, Ontario could become the first jurisdiction to offer a full snapshot in living colour of how well each school serves the whole child, beyond just teaching reading, writing and arithmetic. The provincial government will help fund the research over the next several years as scholars examine how to measure what seems the unmeasurable...

People For Education is launching the project ... which will include broad public consultations on the importance of measuring beyond the 3 R’s, and whether a school should be responsible for promoting health, creativity, citizenship, and social-emotional skills, let alone have its performance on these measured and reported to the public.

http://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2014/09/01/back_to_school_looking_beyond_the_3_rs.html

The push to measure `wellbeing` is  global.
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2 comments:

  1. Sheila3 September 2014 at 15:58

    A CONsultation along similar lines to our so-called National Debate back in 2002:

    http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/158359/0042897.pdf

    I went to a sparsely attended meeting at my son's primary school where we completed one of these. With hindsight, the non-attenders had the right idea...

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  2. Sheila4 September 2014 at 01:27

    Same outcome based nonsense everywhere:

    http://edu.gov.on.ca/eng/about/renewedVision.pdf

    Oh look - the man who put a kilt on the Stiglitz report and quietly restructured government and public service delivery in Scotland punts "The Scottish System" in Canada.

    http://www.carnegieuktrust.org.uk/publications/2011/more-than-gdp--measuring-what-matters

    http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/Performance/scotPerforms


    http://www.home-education.biz/forum/general-discussion/14033-the-overarching-purpose-of-the-scottish-government.html#post52353

    http://www.dal.ca/faculty/management/news-events/news/2013/02/07/scottish_government___independence_lecture_series.html

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