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Tag Archives: Ministry of Education
Not ‘Getting it’ – and ‘Getting it’
When Tomorrow’s Schools was introduced, I immediately recognised we would be incapable of thinking ourselves out of the education failure we had allowed ourselves to be thought into (led by Treasury and a mesmerised David Lange) and predicted the next … Continue reading
Treachery! Part 1: The Hipkins’ swift one and the satire
In what follows, I spell out briefly an astonishingly duplicitous U turn by Chris Hipkins that has horrid implications for education. These implications are examined in a further Attack! but I needed to get the message out quickly to encourage … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Chris Hipkins, Curriculum, Education, Education policy, Ministry of Education, National standards, Politics, Schooling
2 Comments
Chris Hipkins is Peter Fraser to our time, Iona Holsted and Katrina Casey are our Clarence Beeby (can you hear the gods laughing?)
This posting starts off in one direction, only to head in, perhaps lurch to might be more accurate, another. But it is held together (hopefully) by my judgement that Chris Hipkins lacks depth of feeling veering to milksop, and my … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Chris Hipkins, Education policy, Ministry of Education, Politics, principals, Social Studies
4 Comments
Here I stand Part 5: Begins with Kathryn Ryan and tricky ERO: ends as the posting that couldn’t be published and a shattering revelation
‘The media, even an outstanding representative like Kathryn Ryan, never gets even close to the heart of it. Below I will describe how, two days ago, Kathryn Ryan was trifled with by the education review office – it was disgraceful … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy, Education Review Office
Tagged Education policy, Ministry of Education, Neoliberalism, Politics, Schooling
6 Comments
Here I stood Part 2: What goes around with quantitative reading professors comes around
Introduction In the NZ Herald today (26.04.2018), Natalie Akoorie has written an article on a just released review office report damning reading recovery. This report was then discussed by the review office and responded to by one of the Massey … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Curriculum, Education, Education policy, ERO, Ministry of Education, National standards, Politics, Reading, Teachers, Tomorrow's Schools
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I am not sitting on my hands: the cabinet paper is not enough
On balance, the paper by the minister of education to the cabinet removing national standards is useful, but not sufficiently so to make definitive philosophical change in the way National always does, and Labour has done twice, once with Peter … Continue reading
What I want from Chris Hipkins (also Tracey Martin, Kelvin Davis, and Jenny Salesa)
First, I want to commend Chris on his brilliant ministerial beginning with the bold declaration of the abolition of national standards – followed up by the education comeback comment of the decade: It was Friday (I think) morning and TV1 … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Community of Learning, Computers, Curriculum, Education policy, ERO, Ministry of Education, NZEI, NZPF, Politics, principals, Schooling, Teachers
4 Comments
Do you pass the test for a leader under Labour?
Where did the leaders go wrong in their responses (though they were pretty good as far as they went) as reported in a provincial newspaper on 20 October; responses that if asked of education leaders generally, would, I think, be … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Curriculum, Education, Education policy, Ministry of Education, principals, Schooling
6 Comments
On the steps of parliament: protest against ERO
Timed for the opening of parliament 1996: New Zealand First in coalition with National On Wednesday, 11 December, I pointed my car down my driveway in Cambridge, turned right, and right again, and headed south. It was my appreciation that … Continue reading
Posted in Education Review Office, Political
Tagged Education, ERO, Ministry of Education, Politics, Schooling, Tomorrow's Schools
2 Comments
An evening with Lockwood
One of the marvels of contemporary political and education life is that Lockwood Smith was such a hopeless minister of education and such a good speaker of the house. (Probably rules and thinking in straight lines are his forte.) Lockwood’s … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy, Political
Tagged Education, Education policy, Ministry of Education, Neoliberalism, Politics, Schooling
6 Comments
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