Posted in assessment & reporting, parents and schools, politics on Aug 17th, 2008 No Comments »
So, what’s wrong with league tables, except that Essendon has flattened out to 12th with two games to go? Nothing, if you want a simple and clear list from top to bottom with a whole lot of data attached. Plenty, if the idea is to simplify and simply rank what is much more complex than [...]
Posted in curriculum, politics on Jun 5th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’ve blogged occasionally (most notably HERE) and grumbled a lot here and there about the intrinsic value or not of a national curriculum; now an idea that’s firmly here and on the agenda of both sides of politics, as seen in this ABC news piece from back in January.
The other day I was asked to [...]
Posted in politics on Apr 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Not that education policy in this country is driven by politics or anything… From the AGE today.
FEDERAL Education Minister Julia Gillard has refused to
guarantee the future of a body set up by the Howard Government to
improve teaching.
Many teachers and states said the establishment of Teaching
Australia in 2005 was an ideologically driven exercise in
teacher-bashing, its [...]
Posted in politics, values on Feb 12th, 2008 No Comments »
It’s easy to get a bit cynical about politics, politicians and you may even have seen some of that in this blog over the years. But tomorrow’s ’sorry’ statement strikes me as something forward-looking and idealistic that we can only hope will move the nation forward to a different future. At our school teachers are [...]
Posted in conferences, curriculum, politics on Nov 19th, 2007 No Comments »
I must admit that, at times during the Curriculum Corporation Conference in Sydney I felt like a tiny voice of dissent in a chorus of support for national curriculum.
Not surprising perhaps, given the positioning of the Curriculum Corporation as an agent of federal government, but there was almost an inevitability about it all as speaker [...]
Posted in politics on Oct 30th, 2007 No Comments »
I promised I wouldn’t harp on about VIT, and I did attend a pretty good presentation on VIT a week or so ago, but this is the full text of an email I received today.
This is an
automated reply.
Please do
not respond to this email. Thank you for your recent application for renewal of
registration with [...]
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