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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
1. Assessment – Role of Teachers
2. Testing
3. Jacqui and Peter
4. The Pupil in the Middle of Your Eye
5. Learning in Small Groups
6. Some Stories from Schools
7. Ages of Compulsory Schooling Australia – March 2009
8. How ‘Back to Drastics’ Happened
9. Four Way Test
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Reproduced with kind permission of
Sean Leahy
