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How the Machine Works

What’s really happening inside educational institutions — and why. Decisions that look like they’re about learning are often about data assumptions, incentives, and institutional habit. Seeing the machinery is the first step to changing what it produces.

🧭 The framework

The Nine Dimensions of Data Assumptions in Education

My framework for seeing the machinery: nine dimensions that determine how schools turn data into decisions — and where those decisions quietly go wrong.

Download the framework (PDF)

The printable one-pager.

🎧 Listen

Mismatched Podcast — the machinery chapters

Institutional Mythology, Data Theater and the Lotta Chicken Principle, Same System New Labels — inside the Mismatched playlist.

📄 Read

Research

The studies and reports behind the framework.

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