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The predominance of data-driven education is a product of the eduindustry, not the basis for sound teaching and learning beyond the factory model. Data itself is not bad; standardized assessments though are just one assessment and cannot define achievement. "Fixing" a teacher's "deficit" in "understanding" "standardized" "test" "data" is as ideologically and practically flawed as the "data" we're talking about. Professionally-developing teachers on how to work with bad data is still going to yield bad data. Standardized test scores are not effective measures of student skill mastery, and that's the more pressing debate. -- reeveskd comment

Throw away all of your preconceived ideas about the behaviour and nature of teenagers. New research suggests that without our turbulent teen years the human race would be, as Dr. David Bainbridge puts it in Surviving:) The Teenage Brain, "short lived and stupid." In the past, when we put the words selfish, reckless, irrational, irritable and impossible together we could only be describing one thing: the teenager - that odd creature that invades our homes for what seems like an eternity and tests the limits of our reasoning skills and patience. But what if teenagers are doing exactly as nature intended? Surviving:) The Teenage Brain looks at this critical developmental stage from a scientific and evolutionary point of view. The film combines cutting edge scientific research with YouTube clips of outrageous teen behaviour and a graphic novel approach to challenge conventional thinking about the adolescent years. It illustrates that our teens are doing precisely what they should be doing to finesse the development of their brains and ensure the survival of the human species.

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