The expectation of the conference was that it would create a certain dynamics, bringing ethics educators together from many different countries, making them enthusiastic about their teaching, and providing incentives for learning how teaching could be improved and diversified with new ideas.

UNESCO: THEMES

If you really, truly want to measure outcomes, you should not create a system that incentives teaching to a test.

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And then we will conclude that the issue is poor teaching, lack of accountability, incentives, unions, the inevitable effects of poverty, lack of parental support and blah, blah, blah.

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This means teaching folks on the left that tax policy affects incentives to earn and report taxable income.

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Pretty soon, all the incentives for the schools become geared towards teaching to those tests, and everything else falls by the wayside.

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

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Thirdly, the project proposes the design and implementation of career paths oriented towards strengthening the teaching profession and attracting good candidates, requiring the adjustment of policies on remunerations and incentives, promotion, performance assessment and the assignment of roles and functions.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

This helps keep the bad incentives at a minimum, and cheating and other violations much less frequent, while allowing creative approaches to teaching to flourish.

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