A Principal’s Lament
Principals are being asked to carry the blame while losing the freedom to lead. That isn’t reform. That is control.
Setting the Agenda
Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.
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Elizabeth Rata Dame Honour Sparks Education Backlash
Elizabeth Rata has been made a dame. Critics see more than an honour. They see the Government rewarding a curriculum agenda that walks back bicultural education.
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Something Smells at the Teaching Council of Aotearoa
Three elected teacher representatives resign early. Erica Stanford moves towards a fully appointed Teaching Council. And the same ugly question keeps surfacing: who is really in charge?
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How Do You Define A Woman? Not Like This!
After years demanding Labour define a woman, NZ First’s answer appears to be: a woman is a biological female and a female is a biological female.
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Can Labour centrism win the election? No. But why?
The problem with centrism is not moderation. It is that voters eventually stop believing you stand for anything at all.
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Stanford’s Magic Trick: Treaty of Waitangi in Education, gone
The argument was that Treaty obligations would move to the Crown. Critics say the latest education reforms prove they were simply removed.
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Erica Stanford’s Education Power Grab Explained
What children learn, how teachers are judged and who controls the profession could soon sit directly under ministerial authority.
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IDF subcontracts sexual assault of Palestinian prisoners to dogs???
Testimony, leaked footage and human rights investigations are piling up around allegations of horrific abuse inside Israel’s Sde Teiman detention centre.
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NZ’s Migrant Labour Exploitation System Explained
For decades New Zealand relied on migrant workers to prop up the economy, while trapping many in a temporary visa system with little long-term security.
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Ben Morgan: Ukraine’s Tactical Drone Revolution
The future of war may already be here. Ukraine’s drone battlefield is changing military tactics faster than governments, generals or ethicists can keep up.
