Posted in curriculum, politics on Dec 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Well there wasn’t a lot of actual guns thankfully, but a lot of implied threats, angst, legal wrangling and big money at stake this week in the Federal Parliament as school funding and national curriculum and political ambitions all got tangled up. There were threats, counter-threats, bluffs, bullying and bravado, and while education was front [...]
Posted in politics on Dec 1st, 2008 No Comments »
I was going to blog last week about Chris Lehmann’s excellent post last week on Expectations of Student Behaviour, which argued that teachers are sometimes guilty of some degree of hypocrisy in the way that they treat students and the expectations they have of them, and argues in part:
One of the things that never seems [...]
Posted in curriculum, education-news, politics on Oct 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Radio National’s Australia Talks program had an interesting discussion on the ‘education revolution’, national curriculum and assorted responses to educational issues including the crowded curriculum.
The thing liked was the refreshing lack of politics to the discussion, thg good sense and, from a couple of speakers, the emphasis on hearing student voices in the debate. Would [...]
Posted in curriculum, politics on Sep 8th, 2008 No Comments »
What if the national curriculum that’s going to revolutionise everything also included HOW to teach certain subjects such as perhaps reading? Would we all think it so benevolent and non-invasive then.
I’ve railed and wailed here about national curriculum before but Caroline Milburn’s article in the AGE today opens a new line; that methodology might also [...]
Posted in politics, teacher-bashing on Aug 28th, 2008 2 Comments »
It didn’t work in the USA, it didn’t work in the UK, but let’s try it anyway. The Rudd government’s plan to ‘name and shame’ under-performing schools, principals and teachers is simplistic, populist stuff. Stuff that wont improve student learning.
The Australian reports:
KEVIN Rudd will demand states take tough action against failing schools, sacking principals and [...]
Posted in parents and schools, politics on Aug 27th, 2008 No Comments »
While we hold these truths to be self evident: that school attendance is good; the latest government think-tank idea, withdrawing welfare payments from families who don’t make their kids attend school doesn’t hold up.
Attending doesn’t mean there’s any learning going on
Linking school to hunger isn’t good
What will schools and teachers do with students who have [...]
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