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Some housekeeping: Bruce Hammonds: BTAC: Revolt in ministry
Some good stuff on Bruce Hammond's web site; great news provided by Perry Rush; and who's been telling little fibbies?... more
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The Pasifika disgrace
They are simply white kids who happen to have brown faces - who later make up the bulk of the All Blacks.... more
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Ministry memo: Providing ministry expertise to teachers proving a huge waste of time
Networkonnet has gained access to a hard-hitting, informal, secret ministry of education memo, indicating that the writer believes attempts to instruct teachers on national standards were 'proving a huge waste of everybody's time'.... more
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I thought I could smell a rat: Breaking news information about Learning Media
Breaking news information to go with the posting on Learning Media.... more
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Trouble at Learning Media
I'll get straight to the point: there's trouble at Learning Media... more
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ERO comes calling: The interview will be conducted in any way I want it to be
'I ask you to move your chair back. I'm finding it intimidating.'... more
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Minister backs Marlene Campbell and her national standards rebellion
She's so happy with what Marlene Campbell is doing that she suggests she might be 'way ahead' of everyone else in some of her thinking.... more
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A letter to Trevor Mallard: Can you be our Moses for a reoriented education system?
I was mindful in the framework of ideas that follows to set out a democratic and trust-based system which did not replace one set of certainties with another. Wittgenstein described the modern-day obsession with certainty as a superstition. In education, in a social democracy, there isn’t anyone who knows – at best we are talking about approximation. There certainly isn’t anyone who knows, who can be certain about what is right for all children, for all teachers, for all schools, for all societies, for all times. It should not be management by objectives (which is neo-liberalism) but movement in variety towards agreed aims (which is social democracy and, as such, should be Labour idealism).... more
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Springtime for Marlene and Tolley?
I tell you what minister though, and without contacting Marlene (but she's a good-hearted Southland girl and a former committed National Party voter) - if you apologise for your lie in the Explanatory Note, Marlene will apologise to you for her comments.... more
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NZEI joining Rocky Horror Advisory Group would be a mistake
The crucial point is that if the minister is genuinely seeking to move past national standards, she will want to talk to us, it is in her political interest to talk to us, so she will find a way. But in us agreeing to a way, we must not put ourselves at a disadvantage.... more
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