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Tag Archives: Politics
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
Labour’s education dunce strikes again
When is Jacinda going to save children and teachers a lot of hurt and Labour a lot of embarrassment and take education away from its current resident education dunce? The situation ‘Morning Report’, the interviewer Guyon, the topic charter schools … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Chris Hipkins, Education, Education policy, Politics, Schooling
2 Comments
Tomorrow’s Schools’ wheel-a-go-round
The lack of attention to: Leadership: you can have good leadership (no recent example in education comes to mind) and bad leadership (Hekia Parata) and no leadership (Chris Hipkins) – which constitutes an abdication to bad leadership The way the … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Chris Hipkins, Education policy, Politics, Schooling, Tomorrow's Schools
1 Comment
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
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There is another in the arrangement, so it is a bit crowded
Does the panel for Tomorrow’s Schools remain our only hope? In the absence of providing his own sense of principled direction Chris Hipkins is acting through a disparate assembly of adult organisational educational needs and ideologies. Unable to see straight … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Education, Education policy, NCEA, Neoliberalism, Politics, principals, 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
What I wrote last year about CoLs and salaries, don’t say I didn’t warn you (written some months ago)
(And just for your edification NZEI’s media yesterday’s release (17.05.18).) Get this straight: if National is returned, paying for the clusters will just about be it, and National will have another term saying clusters will solve everything (another three years … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Community of Learning, Education policy, Politics, Schooling
1 Comment
My four changes to fix a broken primary school education system: you will only guess one of them
The primary school education system is broken – if change isn’t fundamental, it will be yet another betrayal of teachers and children. At the top we have Chris Hipkins. I have stopped issuing dire warnings about him because I recognise … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Curriculum, Education, Education policy, ERO, Neoliberalism, Politics, Schooling, Teachers
5 Comments
Hattie’s research is false: Vice-Chancellors asked to investigate Part 2
The falseness of Hattie’s research is not difficult to explain; only a few aspects are complex. But everything about Hattie’s research is false except for some opinions which, while they may be true, are also false, because he claims them … Continue reading
Posted in Hattie
Tagged Academics, Education, Education policy, ERO, Hattie, National standards, Politics, Schooling
3 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
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