> Where other countries often enact piecemeal and uncoordinated reforms, Singapore tries to look at the system as a whole. It invests heavily in education resea

> Where other countries often enact piecemeal and uncoordinated reforms, Singapore tries to look at the system as a whole. It invests heavily in education research. All reforms are tested, with the outcomes diligently monitored, before being rolled out. Not being in the education field myself, what do other countries currently do, that isn't an evidence-based test-and-then-roll-out approach? Growing up in the U.S., my parents were told by teachers that 6th and 7th grade was too early to teach a child algebra, because <various studies> showed that children can't handle the abstraction. But my parents, being first generation immigrants, insisted that the counter example of all my cousins in China is clearly evidence to the contrary. But surely my teachers in the U.S. had to have gotten their information from somewhere...