I disagree.
At the peak of this hierarchy of entrenched interests is not government but the vested interests of the $multi-billion measurement industry run by dinosaur textbook companies such as Pearson.
These multi-national corporations have a stranglehold on education that stifles innovation & transformation. As part of the Global Education Reform Movement or GERM they have a vested interest in selling content & the measurement tests that measure the performance of the teacher in distributing it & the learner in memorising it.
This has less to do with government & more to do with unelected organisations with a vested interest in free-market economics such as OECD with whom Pearson are a partner.
The GERM only has an interest in standardisation which is the most efficient route to the privatisation of public education and as a result seeks to productise the 19th century standard model of education that was designed to output compliant factory & office workers for an industrial economy. Thus we have edtech companies, many funded by these old dinosaurs, delivering 19th century education with 21st century technology. No wonder it feels like we are going backwards.
To move forward we must consider what is required for present & future generations to thrive in a transforming world.
Getting a bunch of grades in a set of redundant arbitrary measurements in silo’d subjects won’t cut it.
When we think of disruption it is not governments, schools or teachers we should be thinking about, rather it is the existing incumbents of the $multibillion measurement & text book industry from which we must liberate our teachers & learners.
