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From the Ted Talk by Tanishia Lavette Williams: The billion-dollar problem in education

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Open Cloze


Now, the way that we are currently _______ out these assessments results in an inadvertent focus on a very ________, a very laser-point focused point of view that will not _____ our students to be ever-evolving citizens in this crazy society that continues to change. We have created a memorization test where the most likely answer is the _____ male. So I said it at the onset, and I feel compelled to say it again: I believe that the quality of education that we _____ to children can be improved through a strategic disinvestment in leveraging standardized assessments as a form of accountability. What we're doing right now does not build thinkers. We need tinker ________. What we're doing right now does not build creators, and we need ________.

Solution


  1. specific
  2. thinkers
  3. offer
  4. rolling
  5. white
  6. equip
  7. creators

Original Text


Now, the way that we are currently rolling out these assessments results in an inadvertent focus on a very specific, a very laser-point focused point of view that will not equip our students to be ever-evolving citizens in this crazy society that continues to change. We have created a memorization test where the most likely answer is the white male. So I said it at the onset, and I feel compelled to say it again: I believe that the quality of education that we offer to children can be improved through a strategic disinvestment in leveraging standardized assessments as a form of accountability. What we're doing right now does not build thinkers. We need tinker thinkers. What we're doing right now does not build creators, and we need creators.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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strategic disinvestment 2
political economy 2
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sample test 2
people work 2


Important Words


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  31. society
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