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I would like to study the ideology of the one change fix-all is something that intrigues me. People have made claims that a single change within our education system would lead to a monumental change that would place us amongst the top countries in terms of our education system. In the Waiting for Superman movie, a claim is made that if we were to remove the bottom 6-10% of bad teachers in the work force our education system would automatically become good enough to contend with Finland. A claim by the PISA reviewers in the book the smartest kids in the world is that had the American system adopted the Common Core it would greatly improve our results on the PISA exam. Another claim came that if we were to acknowledge ACEs within children the

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