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Decius comments on Problems in Education - Less Wrong Discussion

65 Post author: ThinkOfTheChildren 08 April 2013 09:29PM

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Comment author: Decius 11 April 2013 08:23:50PM 2 points [-]

One more data point; was it a politician with no educator qualifications that wrote the requirements?

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 12 April 2013 07:43:16AM 2 points [-]

I don't know, but my guess would be that a group of bureaucrats with zero educational experience from the Department of Education prepared the document, and some minister just signed it, because it seemed okay (it contained all the applause lights).