So correct. Hickey's credibility is high, especially as a reformed monetarist. Great to see this in the NZ Herald as well. The smile and wave facade is cracking, the mask is slipping and the real Key is being revealed.
No, that one's a light weight who may be on the way out anyway. Hopefully it'll be someone with further to fall and whose fall will make a bigger mess.
On principle, I like this. However going by the reported lower enrolments in those 18+, it seems we've got to engage these people first and bring them into an active role in voting. Merely changing the eligibility, without first bringing meaning to the ...
While all politicians are 'economical with the truth' as Oliver North said about 30 years ago, Key has take this to a whole new level. Lying is second nature to him- it is his automatic response when cornered. There have been so many examples over the past...
There are quite a few schools trying to follow Robinson's view. Probably scattered here and there, and fighting to retain this in the face of the forces of darkness (national's standards). I've heard him speak and he was as marvellous and as entertaining ...
Research of less than 30 people has no validity at all. For your 'research' to be valid and reliable, you would at the very least need to follow opinion polling methodology, and we all know how unreliable opinion polling is. Even at the very best, there's ...
Far bigger than Bill English but otherwise fairly much on target.
There's a very useful USA book "A Measure of Failure: the political origin of standardized testing" that explains all.
My informed view, after a huge amount of reading, and corresponding with overseas educators, is that the first suggestion is the accurate one - following the dictates of overseas string pullers. Too many similarities, including the jargon eg "raising ...
Yes, Bill, it is England who've gone down the testing road. The Scots have far more sense.
Strange, since when has a debate consisted of just waving a couple of references in the air and saying this proves my point?
Isn't it wonderful how the moment an opening appears for ignoramuses to spout off, they appear. You'll notice that no one has bothered to argue the case for national standards on the basis of research and evidence. Instead the usual personal attacks, ...
Your comments on education and national's standards are so accurate. There is a wealth of information from overseas that makes several things very clear. The most glaringly obvious is the link between socio-economics / poverty and children's learning ...
As noted above, it is the NZ parallels that are deeply concerning. As in USA, this meme is spreading so widely that Labour are having to dip their toes into this territory to be noticed - again there is that parallel with the Democrats in the USA. Orwell ...
Dead right. What were his test scores? What were his school's test scores? How did the school rank on the league table? Hope his teacher got merit pay for this? The school principal too, of course? This putting learning into action stuff is nonsense. We ...
Nothing original from Key, just hackneyed ideological nonsense imported from overseas. How about focussing on creating jobs, so school leavers see the promise of a good life in front of them. Labelling all young school leavers as drug addled no-goods is ...
Of course Brownlie lied. This is par for the course for this government, from the top down. While all govts lie (or in Oliver North's unforgettable phrase, are 'economical with the truth') this lot have taken it to a new level. Joyce has admitted as much ...
As I commented yesterday, have a camera on his eyes when he's asked. The lie(s) will be obvious by his involuntary eye movements.
Key was lying when interviewed on 3 News last night about the use of DPS. Watch his eyes carefully and you will see that twice they flick away - half way through the interview and right at the end. This is an unconscious reaction and a real give away when ...
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