Jointly organized by UNESCO, the Secretariat on Policies of Promotion of Racial Equality (SEPPIR), Ministry of Education and Ministry of External Relations of Brazil, the meeting allowed international experts to discuss the major components of the project such as the policy guidelines and teaching materials that have now been drafted by specialists and how to implement pilot testing with interested countries and partners.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

Testing is boring, and teaching to tests makes education meaningless, and creates all sorts of bad incentives.

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The trend of creating a system full of administrators such as deputy, associate, area, and assistant superintendents, assistant principals, curriculum coordinators, fleet coordinators, nutrition directors, frozen food purchasers, mechanics, groundskeepers, psychologists, parent mentors and testing coordinators among dozens of other non-teaching personnel has been just as prominent over the past two decades.

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Testing was also used as a lever to change teaching methods and to tie teachers to the new national curriculum.

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The Conservatives claim that teaching has now become so wrapped up in the red tape of endless testing and form-filling that disillusioned teachers are leaving the profession in droves.

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