Scanning through the wikipedia article you linked, very few previous reforms focused much on student suffering, and much more on the content of the learning & performance measures for the teacher. There may be a selection effect going on here, where only ineffective reforms go through. It would be better to look at a list of failed reforms.
Also, I forgot to mention this in my above comment, but really spectacular work writing this up. I always suspected this was the case, but I didn’t know it was as cost effective as it seems.
Scanning through the wikipedia article you linked, very few previous reforms focused much on student suffering, and much more on the content of the learning & performance measures for the teacher. There may be a selection effect going on here, where only ineffective reforms go through. It would be better to look at a list of failed reforms.
Also, I forgot to mention this in my above comment, but really spectacular work writing this up. I always suspected this was the case, but I didn’t know it was as cost effective as it seems.