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The Three Rs”: Reduce, Regiment, and Ruin our public education system
It wasn’t much fun waking up this morning to the news that the Ministry of Education will no longer be providing advice to primary schools on arts, science, technology, or physical education – nothing in fact, except the “three Rs”: reading, writing, and ‘rit… Continue
Posted by Dellis Hunt on November 8, 2009 at 10:01pm
National does not believe science should be taught in school
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2009/10/22/1245ce3b9622
Primary schools have been told that art, PE and science are to take a back seat to the three Rs.
The Ministry of Education has told schools they wil… Continue
Posted by Dellis Hunt on November 8, 2009 at 10:00pm
Have you got research that supports National Standards?
Have been looking for weeks now and I am still to find something that convinces me that my gut feelings and opinions and research from many, many people are wrong and national Standards are a good thing for our precious children.
"http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10605223">http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10605223
'Pr… Continue
Posted by Dellis Hunt on November 7, 2009 at 8:00pm
Minister defends education standards ahead of announcement
The following comments have been made by Tolley:
'Teachers will need to know how a student reached an answer, rather than simply whether the answer was correct.'
'It was about "digging into" how a student learnt.'
I am appalled as National Standards is about quantitative reporting s… Continue
Posted by Dellis Hunt on November 7, 2009 at 7:45pm
NAG 2a in regards to National Standards
Tolley has said that results will not be used in league style tables. Item (c) shows reporting to the BOT annual report which as you know is publically available. The press knows this and it doesn't take 1 + 1 to get to 2 and see that media will have everything they need to publish league tables.
A correspondent has suggested that the results could be required to be sent to a research organisation for in depth analysis and kept o… Continue
Posted by Dellis Hunt on November 7, 2009 at 12:55pm
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