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Nice commentary from Jay Cross which is, if anything, too kind to the Organization for Quality Education, an organization that is, as he says, "a group of Ontario citizens up in arms over the poor quality of their public schools." Cross quite rightly criticizes this group for reliance on buzzwords, the use of straw man arguments, and unthinking aherence to a dogma. The Organization website suggests that "research worldwide shows that improvement in scholastic results comes from competition among schools, independent testing of students, and little else." This is very likely not true, and the group's position seems to be advocacy for reduced education funding and private schools rather than any increase in learning. Via George Siemens.

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