📝 Billion Dollar Problem in education
Wisdom Letter #235
Loved this Ted Talk from a couple of days ago.
The billion dollar problem is education is standardised testing.
We test, judge and label our kids right from the age of 3 to 20+ throughout their growing up years.
This approach has so many 2nd and 3rd order effects to our future citizens and society in general.
How? Watch this talk from Tanishia Lavette Williams to learn.
The Billion-Dollar Problem in Education -
Standardised tests are stifling creativity
Found this article in the Washington Post from 10 years ago, still relevant today -
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