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.
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Drones not Citizens – National burn NCEA down to re-install education system designed to fail students
National claims the NCEA replacement will lift standards, but critics see something far darker… An education system rebuilt around competition, conformity and private interests.
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Enough About Erica: What Does Labour Have to Say?
After a year of Erica Stanford’s wrecking-ball education reforms, Labour has finally put something on the table, and it’s bigger than just undoing the damage.
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Western Values School Cultist Jonathan Ayling is teaming up with ACT to raise $100,000 to keep Charter Schools?
Selling wine to fund a political campaign is weird. Selling it to push charter schools? That’s something else entirely.
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ACT are lying to you about Charter Schools by comparing Apples with Potatoes and pretending it’s fruit
ACT want you to believe charter schools are a triumph of efficiency. The problem is their own numbers leave out huge costs and compare unlike with unlike.
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The Changes to NCEA Are A Class War
If every “reform” makes it easier for the privileged to win… is it still reform — or something else?
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NZ Initiative’s Free-Market Agenda: Public Housing and Education in focus
The NZ Initiative’s market-led reforms on housing and education spark debate. Critics link ideas to broader free-market networks. What’s at stake?
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While the Left fiddles, the Right beats their war-drum
While the Left has been fiddling about with much gnashing of teeth and tears of concern over the right of two Canadian neo-fascists to speak at an Auckland City council venue – National’s focus has been laser-like at regaining power in 2020.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Free to choose? Not even close!
Well the big announcement has been made and charter schools are to close (sort of). The latest of National’s ideological experiments is to be consigned to the dustbin of history, where it belongs. In a previous blog I went through the performance shortcomings of the New Zealand experiment. For some, though, the performance issues do not matter. It is the ‘freedom to choose’ that is important.
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Charter schools – using the poor to advance the agenda of the rich
The ACT Party were out on the weekend with 100 people supporting their Auckland march to oppose the closure of charter schools.
