{"id":1494,"date":"2010-05-29T08:41:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T22:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/?page_id=1494"},"modified":"2012-07-16T23:28:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T13:28:27","slug":"29-may-10-senate-inquiry-closes-25-june","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/?page_id=1494","title":{"rendered":"29 May &#8217;10 Senate Inquiry &#8211; closes 25 June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">SENATE INQUIRY INTO THE ADMINISTRATION AND REPORTING OF <strong>NAPLAN <\/strong>TESTING.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Check \u00a0 \u00a0 http:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/Senate\/committee\/eet_ctte\/naplan\/info.htm<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Submissions are due by 25 June 2010. The Committee reports to the Senate on 13 August,2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Send submission as an attachment to :\u00a0\u00a0 eewr.sen@aph.gov.au<\/span><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>[My submission\u00a0 of 8 June is No.20 on website above.\u00a0 Just substiutute &#8216;submissions&#8217; for &#8216;info&#8217;.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">PLEASE M AKE SURE THAT YOU SEND YOURS ASAP<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Comment is invited on my suggestions&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">1.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Abandon blanket testing<\/strong> completely.\u00a0 It is too dangerous for school life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">2.\u00a0\u00a0 Consider an <strong>Australia-wide start to compulsory schooling<\/strong> from the beginning of the year that a child turns seven years of age.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">3.\u00a0 Entrench <strong>seven years of schooling <\/strong>for primary pupils, called Year 1, Year 2 etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">4.\u00a0\u00a0 Undertake a wide-scale discussion on <strong>shared parent-pupil-teacher evaluatio<\/strong>n methods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">5.\u00a0\u00a0 All Principals&#8217; groups to be encouraged and supported to conduct their own in-service courses on current issues relating to NAPLAN ; and on <strong>Administrative Ethics and Professional Care of Pupils.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>6.\u00a0\u00a0 Talk to school people <\/strong>about methods of improving what-it-is that needs improvement<strong> <\/strong>in the place of unilateral political decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SENATE INQUIRY INTO THE ADMINISTRATION AND REPORTING OF NAPLAN TESTING. Check \u00a0 \u00a0 http:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/Senate\/committee\/eet_ctte\/naplan\/info.htm Submissions are due by 25 June 2010. The Committee reports to the Senate on 13 August,2010. Send submission as an attachment to :\u00a0\u00a0 eewr.sen@aph.gov.au [My submission\u00a0 of 8 June is No.20 on website above.\u00a0 Just substiutute &#8216;submissions&#8217; for &#8216;info&#8217;.] PLEASE M &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/?page_id=1494\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">29 May &#8217;10 Senate Inquiry &#8211; closes 25 June<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":41,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1494","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1494\/revisions\/1511"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}