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Will you be there? The Dominion, Hartevelt, and league tables
But you won't be there.... more
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The New Zealand Assessment Academy of quantitatives has produced an utterly disgraceful position paper: shame on you
No quantitative academic, in my close study of this academic category, has ever made an argument putting his or her future job prospects at risk. On closer study of the position paper I expect to have this universal truth confirmed.... more
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The New Zealand Academy position paper
The New Zealand Assessment Academy does not, however, agree with either of these arguments.... more
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In the subverted world
Artefact for education in the 21st century. Now with three teacher letters included.... more
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Longstone at the Normal School conference: outrageous behaviour; direct link to Christchurch; her job at risk
‘Primary schools should have been weeded out 20 years ago,’ she said. ‘Now we are going to do it.’... more
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From the failure of national testing in Australia to the predicted failure and harmful consequences of PaCT
This posting begins with a brief account of the failure of national testing in Australia which I link with the failure of New Zealand’s national standards over the last three years, and a prediction of further failure when PaCT, now being developed by an American academic, Michael Johnston, is introduced.... more
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This posting is close to my heart: a journey starting with Stoop
When I see teachers in school I’m reminded of the White Rabbit: ‘I’m late! I’m late! For a very important date! No time to say hello, goodbye! I’m late! I’m late! I’m late!’ It is not concern about being late for one occasion that is being communicated, but the sense that the White Rabbit is perennially late for something never fully properly defined; a permanent condition.... more
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The battle for primary school reading: Part 1
This posting is how a group of women - women in primary school junior classrooms - the ones who have been the heart and soul of junior class reading for decades, have been diminished in status and spirit by phonics-focused academics as an outcome... more
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Pursuing Nicholson
This posting is prompted by the recent publication of a remarkable piece of New Zealand-international research which provides convincing evidence that phonics teaching results in long-term reading disadvantage.... more
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Albert and the discovery thieves
Learning the 3Rs and intellectual challenge and affective engagement are not mutually exclusive – just the reverse, they are reinforcing and, for anything like a satisfactory education, imperative. The emphasis on the 3Rs is a return to the past, condemning many children to a second-class education and, given the demands of contemporary life, akin to certain groups of children being allocated to gardening skills. It is a policy doomed to failure in the guise of one deemed for their salvation.... more
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