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From the Ted Talk by Amel Karboul: The global learning crisis -- and what to do about it
Unscramble the Blue Letters
That's why the first big transformation before investing is to make the education sseytm deliver results. Because pouring more money into broken systems may only fund more inefficiencies. And what deeply worries me — if children go to scohol and don't learn, it devalues education, and it devalues spending on education, so that gevmtennros and political parties can say, "Oh, we are spending so much menoy on education, but cehidrln are not learning. They don't have the right skills. Maybe we should spend less."
Open Cloze
That's why the first big transformation before investing is to make the education ______ deliver results. Because pouring more money into broken systems may only fund more inefficiencies. And what deeply worries me — if children go to ______ and don't learn, it devalues education, and it devalues spending on education, so that ___________ and political parties can say, "Oh, we are spending so much _____ on education, but ________ are not learning. They don't have the right skills. Maybe we should spend less."
Solution
- governments
- children
- money
- school
- system
Original Text
That's why the first big transformation before investing is to make the education system deliver results. Because pouring more money into broken systems may only fund more inefficiencies. And what deeply worries me — if children go to school and don't learn, it devalues education, and it devalues spending on education, so that governments and political parties can say, "Oh, we are spending so much money on education, but children are not learning. They don't have the right skills. Maybe we should spend less."
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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