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Monthly Archives: December 2017
A coherent analysis would require Labour to respond in a coherent way
Labour has made a timid, philosophically fragmented start to its primary school policy implementation; and one that looks destined to continue. From a consideration of its recent history we should not be surprised. It is a political party that ever … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy, Political
Tagged children, Clusters, Community of Learning, Curriculum, Education, Education policy, ERO, National standards, Neoliberalism, NZEI, Politics, Schooling
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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
Here we go on phonics again
Ros Lugg managing director of The Learning Staircase uses the PIRLS result, no doubt in a way that will feel utterly sincere to her, to stir up support for her highly structured and commercialised phonics programme, blaming teacher training for … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, Schooling, Teaching
Tagged children, Curriculum, Education, Phonics, principals, Reading, Schooling, Teachers
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A quiet pre-Christmas warning: We are in trouble
In 1988 I wrote a three-part series in which I predicted why primary school education was heading for trouble (which is about to be re-published); to live that warning, in 1990, I resigned at 51 years as senior inspector of … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Community of Learning, Curriculum, Education, Education policy, ERO, Hattie, Hekia, National standards, Neoliberalism, NZEI, Politics, principals, Schooling, Teachers, Tomorrow's Schools
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