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Hattie fails to follow through
Why didn't he say stop this madness? Why is he allowing the children of New Zealand and their teachers to be put at risk? Why didn't he follow through on the logic of his own argument?... more
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Tolley and the official report: Plain lying
Tolley's press release is not true, what do you think that makes Tolley? And when you lie in education, when you act considerably in your self-interest, when you humbug, when you fail to examine your conscience scrupulously, it is children who suffer.... more
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National standards: a posting I urge you to read
As we move into the complexities of our time, in a new century, it is outrageous that Tolley has played the 3Rs card; a card that was played throughout the 20th century to unfortunate effect; a card that is emotively charged, highly misleading, and unhelpful; a card that implies the three Rs are being neglected and that teachers are too obtuse to recognise this or self-serving to care; a card that implies politicians... more
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Thank god for the Sunday Star-Times
This is truly great journalism. When as a young girl dreaming of Catherine Woulfe: Journalist - it is inspirational moments like this that would have been part of her idealistically-laden reveries. Look at the deft use of the phrase 'understood to be deliberate'. Woulfe doesn't want to be seen copying a press release exactly; she wants to convey every now and then, against surface indications to the contrary, a phantasmagoric complexity, hence the use of the phrase 'understood to be' when the press release would have said 'is deliberate'. What a touch of deceptive journalistic verisimilitude, known in the trade as the sprinkling of the bull dust.... more
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Talk to West Coast principals (1)
As I proceed, it may seem otherwise, but I have not set out to crash into your dearest ideas - the ideas you have probably just relayed to your teachers as being the bedrock of your philosophy. The last thing I want to do is to irritate you. Anyway, comfort yourself if you fundamentally disagree with me - you are in the majority.... more
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Talk to West Coast principals (2)
The encompassing criteria suggested for the first and second competencies could be listed in nearly all unit and lesson plans, the ones for the other competencies on a regular but rotating basis by the teacher ... Use useful books as a source of ideas and activities (like the wonderful 'He Papahuia Toi Maori') but rely most of all on the ideas of teachers. Express these ideas in plain language: keep it straightforward and keep it child centred and teacher driven.... more
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Part A: Truth and morality in academia and how it affects us
The competitive nature of the context within which the research occurs is a kind of research entrapment, which results in many concerned becoming compromised, albeit by circumstance rather than intention. It is mostly a kind of heightened Hawthorne.... more
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Part B: Truth and morality in academia Aotearoa and how it affects us
Why have the voices of academics in the pursuit of truth and morality been stilled? ...
So our professor is going to Wellington to sell professional development data-based programmes for reading, writing, and numeracy based on asTTle to support national standards and the new reports; to sell those programmes for the commercial arm of the university department she is a major contributor to; and to represent the head of that commercial arm, her close associate, who, a few weeks earlier had said the introduction of national standards would result in 'mediocrity', 'send the wrong signals', and result in 'nonsense'.... more
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Opening for Aorangi
Tararua schools have a hands-down victory: Minister's response provides opening for Aorangi... more
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The real reason why national standards have been delayed
Tolley needs Hattie's ideological cover for the conservative agenda she is following; and Hattie needs Tolley for ministry contracts.... more
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