Harvard Business Review's series continues to make me roll my eyes. In this post Joanne Weiss's main point (buried near the end of the article) is that "The development of common standards and shared assessments radically alters the market for innovation in curriculum development, professional development, and formative assessments.... the adoption of common standards and shared assessments means that education entrepreneurs will enjoy national markets where the best products can be taken to scale." See, the problem with the educational marketplace wasn't with any of the products that had been offered over the years, it's that the market itself was wrong, and so we've 'fixed' the market so these products now make sense. See, if your product won't actually educate people, dimply redefine 'education' and then everything works. As if.
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