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28-08-2017, 10:10 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Interesting to see this coming from DGE... we don't need a pliant nation.
Before over 1500 delegates, Director General of the Ministry of Education, Mr Wong Siew Hoong, projected graphs depicting Singapore’s stellar PISA results. He then juxtaposed these to OECD data on student wellbeing, and also of innovation in the economy, revealing Singapore in the lowest quartile. His conclusion was stark: “we’ve been winning the wrong race”.
source: https://au.educationhq.com/news/4137...from-the-nie/# (https://au.educationhq.com/news/41377/the-pisa-fallacy-in-singapore-insights-from-the-nie/#)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (https://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?246109-The-PISA-Fallacy&goto=newpost).
Interesting to see this coming from DGE... we don't need a pliant nation.
Before over 1500 delegates, Director General of the Ministry of Education, Mr Wong Siew Hoong, projected graphs depicting Singapore’s stellar PISA results. He then juxtaposed these to OECD data on student wellbeing, and also of innovation in the economy, revealing Singapore in the lowest quartile. His conclusion was stark: “we’ve been winning the wrong race”.
source: https://au.educationhq.com/news/4137...from-the-nie/# (https://au.educationhq.com/news/41377/the-pisa-fallacy-in-singapore-insights-from-the-nie/#)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (https://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?246109-The-PISA-Fallacy&goto=newpost).