How Canada Is Closing the Achievement Gap: Education Everywhere

In Ontario, schools have raised their test scores and graduation rates by providing resources such as full-time student success teachers, who help English-language learners (ELLs) and other students in need.

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[RoyerStudiosPSAs]

I am so inspired and impressed by the level of care from the staff and administration. While there are many caring educators, I don't often see them organized like this with a team of people committed to the success of the students on such a personal level. In a district like LAUSD where the dropout rate is between 20.6 - 24.8% and almost 182, 000 students are ELL, a program like this could make a world of difference.

[pretzelzetzel]

Since you're showing these videos of revolutionary teaching methods of all these countries at the top of the PISA list, you should do a bit on South Korea, the only one who seems to have gotten there simply by forcing their kids to do countless hours of boring, awful bookwork.

[marusak]

@pretzelzetzel Countless hours of boring, awful bookwork gives you the ability to use a higher techniques of thinking. All conclusions,  analogies,  synthesis, generalization, parallels can be done only after you have enough information to be processed. Those techniques can be exercised only in human brain that is packed with "useless" data and armed with knowledge/experience, how to handle such data/information (not in Google). You can't compare two things you don't even know exists. 
I'm MSc/MBA but I can still name significant members and describe the main difference between Orthopterae and Hymenopterae (orders of insect I was forced to learn in high school). Have I ever used it in my career? Nope. But without a solid foundation in science and history, I had no career at all. Of course you can search the internet if you know there is such a thing like Linnaean taxonomy.