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From the Ted Talk by The TED Interview: Sir Ken Robinson (still) wants an education revolution
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KR: Well, the fuocs of these reform movements has been on crlruuuicm and assessment. And the effect has been to narrow the curriculum onto a group of disciplines that politicians have thought to be more useful, particularly for economic gtrwoh and deoevmlnpet, and on assessment, which they have taken to be the way of guaranteeing that the standards are being delivered. And the form of assessment that's been followed, it's been a very narrow, normative, competitive form of assessment, and none of it's worked. The reason is that the curriculum has become too narrow, it's the wnrog form of assessment.
Open Cloze
KR: Well, the _____ of these reform movements has been on __________ and assessment. And the effect has been to narrow the curriculum onto a group of disciplines that politicians have thought to be more useful, particularly for economic ______ and ___________, and on assessment, which they have taken to be the way of guaranteeing that the standards are being delivered. And the form of assessment that's been followed, it's been a very narrow, normative, competitive form of assessment, and none of it's worked. The reason is that the curriculum has become too narrow, it's the _____ form of assessment.
Solution
- focus
- curriculum
- wrong
- growth
- development
Original Text
KR: Well, the focus of these reform movements has been on curriculum and assessment. And the effect has been to narrow the curriculum onto a group of disciplines that politicians have thought to be more useful, particularly for economic growth and development, and on assessment, which they have taken to be the way of guaranteeing that the standards are being delivered. And the form of assessment that's been followed, it's been a very narrow, normative, competitive form of assessment, and none of it's worked. The reason is that the curriculum has become too narrow, it's the wrong form of assessment.
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Important Words
- assessment
- competitive
- curriculum
- delivered
- development
- disciplines
- economic
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- focus
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- normative
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