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Re:Big Ideas That Don't Work in Education by inguinalhernia on Saturday August 15, 2015 @06:50PM (#10067256)
From the article: "In a new paper, "What Doesn't Work In Education: The Politics Of Distraction," published by Pearson Education"

So the NPR piece is based on a publication from Pearson, who has a huge financial stake in the US education market.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/pearson-education-1150...

How curious.

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Re:Big Ideas That Don't Work in Education by bsder on Saturday August 15, 2015 @10:03PM (#10067677)
> So the NPR piece is based on a publication from Pearson, who has a huge financial stake in the US education market.

If the publication is based on data and the method is open, the source doesn't really matter.

I'm going to assume they have an agenda and keep an eye out for it, but Pearson is not inherently anti-education.

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Re:Big Ideas That Don't Work in Education by rayiner on Saturday August 15, 2015 @07:15PM (#10067321)
Akamai has a huge financial stake in the Internet, so do you ignore their "State of the Internet" reports? By virtue of Pearson's business they also have huge systematic insight into the education system. Not worth dismissing the results of the study simply based on that association.
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Re:Big Ideas That Don't Work in Education by jsprogrammer on Saturday August 15, 2015 @08:24PM (#10067483)
Did anyone say that they should be ignored or dismissed?
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