Primary Schooling

Pages

• The Treehorn Express
• FOREWORD
• THEY MARCH IN WASHINGTON
• Diane Ravitch Tells Why She is Marching on July 30, 2011
• AUSTRALIA – PUBLIC SCHOOLING
• Nov, 2010 Compulsory schooling – a sick joke.
• Leadership, Influence and the Zone of Acceptance
• The Vernacular of Naplan
• Moral Issues for Principals.
• PART 1 – A VISION OF SCHOOLING
  • Time for Demarcation
  • Teaching Strategies
  • Changes
    • Is primary education different?
    • Definitions of Boundaries
  • Curriculum
    • Intrusions
    • Pupil
    • Schooling
    • Learnacy
    • Summary
  • Standardisation
  • Time on task
    • Identification
    • Quality Control
  • Control by Sciolists
  • A School-based Revolution
    • Department of Compulsory Schooling
    • Compulsion [Effects on Schooling]
• PART 2 – ARTICLES – Contemporary Issues
  • Definitions
  • Quotable Quotes
  • Alota Lima : NATIONAL CURRICULUM: an opportunity lost?
  • Teacher Speaking
  • E.W.Eisner: What can education learn from the arts?
  • Hugh Lunn says…
  • The Lost Generation
  • Visiting Experts
  • What is a Good School ?
  • Grammar hints
  • Sites to behold
  • The Perfect Principal [by chain mail]
  • Stories
  • Susan Ohanian says
  • Bruce Hammonds : “Towards a 21stC School…[Extract]
  • THE RELEASE OF MORE CANE TOADS
  • 17 August 2010 – The Release of More Cane Toads – OLO
• PART 3 – BLANKET TESTING IN AUSTRALIA
  • A Short History of High-Stakes Testing
  • Recollections of a Scholarship Teacher
  • Are we Finnished ?
  • Cambridge Primary Review
  • The Blame Game Has Started
  • Principals get cane from D-G.
  • Not on the test
    • WHO CARES ABOUT INTELLECTUAL GROWTH ?
  • October 2009
  • November 2009
  • 10 Jan ’10 – Testing Teacher Professionalism
  • 17 Jan ’10 – A Story About L.O.T.E.
  • 19 Jan ’10 – Teachers to Boycott Tests
  • 28 Jan. ’10 – The Gillard web.
  • 4 Feb. ’10 Article – Tweed Echo
  • 23 Feb’10- Teachers Facing Pressure – Cairns Post
  • 25 Feb.’10 – ‘Just Suppose…’
  • 23 Mar.’10 -Death and Life of a School System – OLO
  • 8 Apr ’10 – Question and Answer – OLO
  • 24 May ’10 – Goldie Hawn & Julia Gillard – OLO
  • 29 May ’10 Senate Inquiry – closes 25 June
  • - 1 June, ’10 – Submission to Senate Inquiry
  • -16 July,’10 – You let him foolya, Julia – OLO
• COMMENT
• CONTACT

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