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From the Ted Talk by Andreas Schleicher: Use data to build better schools

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And the good news is, nine years later, you can see improvements in quality and equity. People have taken up the challenge, done something about it.

Or take Korea, at the other end of the spectrum. In the year 2000, Korea did already very well, but the Koreans were concerned that only a small share of their students achieved the really high levels of excellence. They took up the challenge, and kreoa was able to double the proportion of students achieving enxecelcle in one decade in the field of reading. Well, if you only fcuos on your bghsirtet students, you know what happens is disparities grow, and you can see this bblube moving slightly to the other direction, but still, an impressive improvement.

Open Cloze


And the good news is, nine years later, you can see improvements in quality and equity. People have taken up the challenge, done something about it.

Or take Korea, at the other end of the spectrum. In the year 2000, Korea did already very well, but the Koreans were concerned that only a small share of their students achieved the really high levels of excellence. They took up the challenge, and _____ was able to double the proportion of students achieving __________ in one decade in the field of reading. Well, if you only _____ on your _________ students, you know what happens is disparities grow, and you can see this ______ moving slightly to the other direction, but still, an impressive improvement.

Solution


  1. focus
  2. korea
  3. brightest
  4. excellence
  5. bubble

Original Text


And the good news is, nine years later, you can see improvements in quality and equity. People have taken up the challenge, done something about it.

Or take Korea, at the other end of the spectrum. In the year 2000, Korea did already very well, but the Koreans were concerned that only a small share of their students achieved the really high levels of excellence. They took up the challenge, and Korea was able to double the proportion of students achieving excellence in one decade in the field of reading. Well, if you only focus on your brightest students, you know what happens is disparities grow, and you can see this bubble moving slightly to the other direction, but still, an impressive improvement.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collocation frequency
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social disparities 3
high levels 3
international comparisons 2
world looked 2
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united states 2
measuring outcomes 2
school systems 2
north america 2
school years 2
young children 2
learning opportunities 2
large social 2
providing excellence 2
important lesson 2
countries spent 2
performance variation 2
red dot 2
driving costs 2
public debate 2
german education 2
public policy 2
high performers 2
pedagogical practices 2
school principals 2
helped countries 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
large social disparities 2

Important Words


  1. achieved
  2. achieving
  3. brightest
  4. bubble
  5. challenge
  6. concerned
  7. decade
  8. direction
  9. disparities
  10. double
  11. equity
  12. excellence
  13. field
  14. focus
  15. good
  16. grow
  17. high
  18. impressive
  19. improvement
  20. improvements
  21. korea
  22. koreans
  23. levels
  24. moving
  25. news
  26. people
  27. proportion
  28. quality
  29. reading
  30. share
  31. slightly
  32. small
  33. spectrum
  34. students
  35. year
  36. years