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"If democracy is going to work, it's got to be practised in school as well as talked about."

Derry Hannam in conversation with Rosemary Bechler and Margarete Hentze at the 2016 World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg.

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On Testocracies:

"Testocracy: a market driven education system that is based on private companies selling their curriculum products, lobbying governments to buy their curriculum products for their schools systems, offering them to provide high stales standardised tests on the standardised curriculum products, collecting and selling their data to government. Using this to create a teacher-school accountability system, so that teachers can be fired if their teachers don't get high enough scores in the tests, or their salary increase can be withheld, head teachers can be fired etc etc."