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“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” (Diogenes Laertius)
Our Education system continues to be in the throes of “educational reform” with no clear philosophy about the kind of person we want to see at the end of the process. Let’s draw on the work of researchers such as Malcolm Baldrige (see: Characteristics of High Performing Schools) and Howard Gardner (see his theory of Multiple Intelligences) and Robert Marzano et al (see their Nine Instructional Strategies that “are most likely to improve student achievement across all content areas and across all grade levels”), and the standards of achievements and evaluation/inspection schedules for schools that have been developed by various countries?