Standardisation of education Henry Ford would be proud!
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Madness has spread to both sides of the Tasman Sea this week, with
the publishing of Naplan test results in Australia and of national standards
‘data’ in New Zealand. As usual
politicians and media are making the most of this, regardless of all the
evidence to the contrary. This GERM is very contagious and hard to eradicate.
I welcome suggested articles, so if you come across a gem, email it
to me at allan.alach@ihug.co.nz.
This week’s homework!
Learning by making
English academic Steve
Wheeler is very good value and this article is no exception.
Education
Reform: Treating Schools Like Businesses is Wrong
We know this. The problem is that the
businesses who see $$$$$$ don’t know, and don’t want to know, the basic truth.
Education
Reform Sucks: Driving a Stake through High Stakes Testing
Phil Cullen has covered this excellent
article in a Treehorn Express - well worth reading again.
A Global Fund for Education: Achieving Education for All
Sounds good, doesn’t
it? Sorry, this is aimed at the GERMing of education worldwide.
Proposed
Competencies for Learning Outcomes: Early Childhood, Primary, and Post-Primary
This is a draft of an international set of
competencies, linked to the articles immediately above. What do you think? Is
this as altruistic as it is framed?
Joel
Klein: Enormous Resistance to Change in K-12 System
Murdoch stooge
Joel Klein (Mr Naplan in Australia), a New York lawyer, pronouncing on
educational change. Time for educators to reform the legal system, it seems.
Free schools are a disaster
‘Michael
Gove's flagship policy is a huge waste of money, socially divisive and won't
raise educational standards’
Free schools in the UK are the same as
charter schools elsewhere, and are just as ineffective. However deformers will
ignore this, to the peril of real education. Given that the head of New
Zealand/s Ministry of Education, Lesley Longstone, was brought over from the UK
because of her expertise with free schools, it is pretty clear where NZ’s
charter school programme is heading.
U.S. Education in Chinese Lock Step? Bad Move.
The
education systems in China and the United States not only are headed in
opposite directions, but are aiming at exactly what the other system is trying
to give up.’
As Children’s Freedom Has Declined, So Has Their
Creativity
Self explanatory!
The
9th problem with the Common Core standards
Another excellent article by Marion Brady,
that reinforces the article above about declining creativity. While relating to
the USA, his points are valid wherever core standards are being decreed.
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