An unhealthy data obsession is strangling our schools

Tim Perkins

By Tim Perkins
Community contribution / February 13, 2019

In education one of the very pertinent questions we currently need to be asking ourselves is, ‘are we spending too much time weighing the pig and not enough time fattening the pig?’

School leaders have become compelled to be obsessed with data.

There is an increasingly widely held belief in schools that ...

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