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K-12: Criminal Minds At Work

by | Jul 25, 2016 | Blog, Education

As you read this consider the record amounts of money nations like Australia are pouring into education as we continue to slide down the international rankings table in the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic. Think about programs like Safe Schools as they crowd...

Dumb And Dumber

by | May 19, 2016 | Blog, Education

Tabloid gottcha questions from a couple of low rating radio hosts aside, 2UE breakfast, how did it ever get to this? This is the end result of dumbing down, where even the teachers are illiterate. Blind leading the blind. Far better that we have...
What Thinking Australian Are Thinking (Part 2)

What Thinking Australian Are Thinking (Part 2)

by | May 13, 2016 | Blog, Education

    We have six state, two territory and a federal government, all of which have health and education departments. And we are told we need to spend more money on health and education. Don Spence, Ashmore, Qld If Chinese and South Korean students are so far...
Random note #194,526 – Education

Random note #194,526 – Education

by | May 12, 2016 | Blog, Education, Random Notes

Random note   In the 2016 Federal Budget the government announced that it would spend a billion dollars on a back to basics program I editorialised on another thread at the time that this kind of solution is no solution at all.   Why should it cost a billion...