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Boards Taking Action

Written By: - Date published: 9:11 am, September 8th, 2011 - 133 comments

RNZ had the news this morning that the schools most strongly opposing the nonsense of “national standards” – the Boards Taking Action Coalition – have decided to change their tactics.

Welcome to Finland

Written By: - Date published: 6:54 am, August 31st, 2011 - 58 comments

Where National Standards is only the answer to “what keeps other countries from catching our education system?”

Tolley’s delusions of relevance

Written By: - Date published: 1:55 pm, August 17th, 2011 - 53 comments

More and more schools are standing up and saying No to national standards.  Naturally, Tolley thinks it’s all about her.

The real cost of PPP’s revealed

Written By: - Date published: 5:13 pm, August 9th, 2011 - 40 comments

A report in the Financial Times, that hotbed of socialism, says that PFI’s as PPP’s are known in Britain cost an extra 20 billion pounds in “extra borrowing costs” over the 53 billion pounds of the projects’ actual cost. Not only that, 4 billion pounds will go to consultants. Enough said. Another dumb idea from those who gave us collateralised debt instruments,  self-correcting markets and “there is no alternative”.