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Don Ambrose, in a thought piece used as a target for commentary on where global education and creative giftedness should intersect in the 21st Century, said: “The murder of creativity comes from dogmatic adherence to accountability initiatives driven by widespread, high-stakes measurement of superficial, narrow abilities through standardized testing” (chapter 2, this volume).
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Piirto, J. (2016). The Creative Intelligence of Teachers Resisting the Pearsonizing of Global Education. In: Ambrose, D., Sternberg, R.J. (eds) Creative Intelligence in the 21st Century. Advances in Creativity and Giftedness, vol 11. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-506-7_9
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