Nats don’t believe their own education policy
As usual it is the kids who will suffer.
charter schools
Education and poverty
No one can fix the tail of educational underachievement without fixing poverty.
Incoherent education policy
The right hand of National’s education policy doesn’t know what the far-right hand is up to…
Local Bodies: NZ Charter Schools Defined
A post (reprinted with permission) from bsprout at the Local Bodies blog…
While I have your attention class…
While the public’s attention is focused on educational issues, use the platform to press for change on the Nats other damaging educational initiatives, national standards and charter schools.
NRT: Catherine Isaac’s crony appointment
The indefatigable Idiot/Savant at NRT has been looking at the appointment of Isacc to head the Charter School Working Group. It seems to have been conducted with all the professionalism and integrity that we have come to expect of ACT.
More willful ignorance on charter schools
Armstrong tries to downplay the risks of charter schools. To do so of course he has to (as the PM so often does) denigrate the science that he wants to ignore.
Ideological blindness on education
The Nats are determined to ignore the evidence on the harm caused by charter schools, just as they are ignoring evidence on the damage done by national standards. This willingness to harm kids, as incidental pawns in their ideological games, really pisses me off.
ImperatorFish: The Two Most Powerful Arguments They Can Muster
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here
National seem to be backing Charter Schools on the premise that if the teachers don’t want them, they must be good.
ImperatorFish: Not Irony #2
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here
David Farrar is running National’s line that anything the teachers don’t want must be good for the education of our children…
Charter schools
Once again, under National, we get to repeat an experiment that failed 20 years ago. All cooked up on the back of an envelope in a coalition deal. Education deserves much better.