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The e-asTTle and STAR scandal made clear
It seems that when a well supported classroom is envisaged, taking into account the acknowledged inflation in results, a higher quality of writing can be expected even though it is the same quality as before. The calibration of the test to a classroom situation in which the writer is well supported means an ordinary writer, with no extra effort by teacher or writer, is lifted to the extra-ordinary at the waft of a rubric.... more
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The stain of ideological corruption: hastily written response to ministry paragraph
The ministry paragraph, no doubt destined for notoriety in our educational history, is tragically pathetic.... more
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STAR and now e-asTTle: I now accept the likelihood of a jack-up - enquiry called for
In a vague Kafkan way teachers are made to feel they are to blame for the shambles; that somehow they have missed an instruction they should have taken into account.... more
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Miracle on Swann
Was it a jack-up or a cock-up?... more
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Ministry gathering ethnicity statistics using a method that is invalid and unethical
The argument is that the government is using an invalid method to gather education ethnicity statistics, a method that is unethical, inconsistent with international best practice and, when explained to teachers and parents would be considered objectionable, stupid, insulting.... more
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Reporting on ethnicity: new ministry requirements - the ministry must be a festering swamp
That is, whenever Maori is placed in a sequence, even if placed third, that categorisation overrides all others.
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The Novopay debacle should be the clincher for the sacking of Lesley Longstone
Can your seniors get a glimmer in that Novopay in its ‘two full simulations and six cycles of payroll verification’ picked up nary a tremor yet in its implementation is the Hindenburg of payroll projects?... more
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Liar, liar, pants on fire: Lesley Longstone
I want this interview to go down in New Zealand education history as an extension of the utter rubbish, amateurishness, lying, and delusional meanderings, we have had to put up with over the last four years.... more
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Multi Serve: Does it merit its charitable status? It is all very strange
There is something fishy going on here: I hope Multi Serve has not been stashing away money with the intention of starting charter schools. I do accept that we will find Multi Serve saying they invest a lot in chasing overseas contracts but something is seriously askew. Multi Serve is a charitable trust, there should be a steady flow of charity, this is close to being a dry bed: who is doing the damming, and to what purpose?... more
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Let us at least do something beautiful with the writing of our children: State of the curriculum and the holistic 3
The signs of sincerity in children’s writing abound when you know that that is what you are looking for: the words that take you by surprise with their freshness and aptness; the originality of viewpoint; a sense of difference that works; an intuitively systematic way of describing things; and the rush of admiration at something beautiful being expressed.... more
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