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I'm not sure I would cites these six as the top examples of education revolutions, but they're not not bad, and I am totally in accord with the sympathies of this post. "I think it is maddest of all to see education as it is and not as it should be. For decades, I have seen policies, curricula, standardized testing, instructional practices, institutional rules, bureaucracy, and classroom design destroy the joy of learning. That is why so many of our students slip through the system and become part of the poverty or crime cycle." How ironic that reformers seek to further institutionalize the mechanisms of learning, rather than fostering diversity, innovation and change. here are the six:
- Stephen Heppell, be very afraid
- Bijal Damani’s Class Bazaar
- Monika Hardy's Innovation Lab
- The Swiss School
- The Blue School by Blue Man Group
- The Hellerup School

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