December 2010
3 posts
Professor Elley thinks so too...
The NZ Herald article opens “Why aren’t we celebrating our international success in education, asks Warwick Elley, emeritus professor of education.”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/education/news/article.cfm?c_id=35&objectid=10695426
Merry Christmas indeed!
All I want for Christmas...
Guess which country sits seventh (out of 64 OECD countries-economies) in the latest PISA results? New Zealand? Yes - our essentially still non-national-standards-based education system continues to produce students whose overall achievement in literacy, mathematics and science sees New Zealand one of eleven systems whose students are performing “significantly above the OECD...
We live in seriously worrying times...
This week, the following advisory was sent to all schools from the Ministry of Education. Sadly, it is all too self-explanatory. It is reproduced here in it’s entirety:
SUGGESTED MESSAGE FOR PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS
Keeping your child safe over the holiday period
The summer holiday period is a time many of us look forward to when we can spend time with our families, whānau and children,...
