As a retired primary school principal, I think you've summed up the issues very well. This report provides a very good way ahead and is probably what should have happened when the nonsensically named 'Tomorrow's Schools' was imposed in 1990. Rather than ...
It's aspirational according to our departed dear leader, i.e., 100% bullshit
The answer could be much simpler than that. His reading of the electoral tea leaves could telling him that the chances of National winning next year are not good and so he's getting out to avoid having 'loser' on his CV. Look at all the positive comments ...
It's all smoke and mirrors. Any problems with children's educational progress is dominated by socio-economic issues - this has been known for a couple of decades at least. The case could be made that the first Labour government (through Peter Fraser) was ...
I hid my money in Panama, John. Where did you hide yours?
This interview between Michael Hudson and Chris Hedges is also worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4ylSG54i-A
What a loss to The Greens and to Parliament. What a gain for Greenpeace.
Why do the non-answers from the other three candidates (other than Corbyn) sound so familiar? They all try to use as many words as they can in order to say very little. NZ Labour should be forced to watch this many times until they get the message.
A similar theme comes through in Ray Bradbury's book 'Fahrenheit 451' especially the use of mindless reality programmes to distract the masses.
My vote was the same as yours, for very similar reasons. I also very much agree with your analysis of Labour's problems in the past, and their seeming lack of vision and belief (incoherent is the word that comes to mind) and how Labour should proceed from ...
On TV3 news last night, John Key used the words "he's a welcome addition to the National government." What else needs to be said?
There's also the issue that the Internet Party will be able to advertise during the campaign and one doesn't need to be a rocket scientist to guess what the ads will target.
Their education cupboard is now empty. Didn't have much to start with, mind you! Expect a rev up in implementation of existing programmes. PPP schools in Christchurch for a start.
While I hate to cover for Hekia, PISA tests 15 year olds. National Standards apply to primary school kids from year 1 to year 8, and so the tested kids were not involved in them. The opposite argument is that tested kids started school in 2002 when it was ...
Don't disregard the affects of Hekia's attacks on Christchurch schooling.
Very likely correct. In that case the opposition parties need to put their heads together to play the same game. Not standing a Labour candidate in Te Tai Tokerau and possibly also in Waiariki would vastly improve the chances of Mana representation. Not ...
How long will it be before this moves on to land, such as restriction on protests against prospecting and mining in the wonderful Pureora Forest?
Ultimately there is only one test for the new leader, whoever it is: he or she must be able to handle and control John Key, or else the election may slip away. Key's manipulation of Campbell Live, even though he was spinning lies and misdirections as fast ...
The problem with unilaterally closing charter schools is that the kids enrolled there will suffer. There has to be a way to continue their schooling at the same start, reintegrated back into the public schooling system, and I don't know the legal issues ...
This may bring interesting results: One to watch: Question time today (starts at 2pm) METIRIA TUREI to the Minister of Education: Will the Education Amendment Bill allow private businesses to set up charter schools on the sites of closed state schools?
I suspect the Greens will attract significant proportion of the non-voters in 2011, the ones who stayed home because they didn't see Labour as a viable alternative to National. I'd also suggest that the country has been waiting for this speech, although it...
There's a small matter of the $1million plus being spent to advertise the assets. Obviously that's OK to the pro-sales brigade.
Any claims about increased costs to employers are just red herrings. They will pass these on to consumers anyway as they do with tax and other costs. Denying a living wage just means that employees aren't much better than slaves. The end user (consumer) ...
And if 3 people want to get married, so what? What's wrong with polygamy? Seriously. Someone please explain the problems in an objective, well reasoned and evidence based article (and writings in a very old book do not count as evidence based).
One sign of 'oppression' is buying into the terminology. By using 'mum and dad investors' Hipkins has done just this. Education is a good example, where the meaningless phrase 'raising achievement' is being used by all and sundry. Lakhoff and Chomsky both ...
Jack wasn't well treated by the party then and I suspect that the same would apply if he was a member of the party today. Wasted talent.
That is indeed the model being applied in England. As that the present Secretary of Education worked on this in England in her field of expertise, who is surprised that its coming here? The plan was obviously well developed before the election, given that ...
Yes please. It is known that the plans for charter schools were being developed in 2009 and were certainly well in place when the present Secretary for Education was appointed.
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All very well to use overseas evidence support arguments, Stever, but it does pay to get your facts right first. Using Sweden as an example sounds good, except for this article published in The Guardian on September 10 2011 "Doubts grow over the success of...
My layperson interpretation: The additional problem for National is that NZ First is more likely to be picking up votes from disaffected voters who would tend to vote towards the right, and who have probably indicated this in opinion polling up until now. ...
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