by Jim Ball | May 2, 2018 | Blog, Education, Education, Random Notes |
Whenever assessing something or someone the only thing you really have to go on is past history. The resume. The track record. A lot has been written and said in recent days about education and Gonski 2.0. The bottom line question is will it amount to much? The...
by Jim Ball | Jun 29, 2017 | Blog, Education, Education, Stolen Children |
Is this evil or what? And where is the Minister for Education? “..Kynan Wykes, 10, and his year 4 class thought they were starting a normal school day when a nun walked into the classroom at 9.30am on Tuesday, holding a letter that she said came from the...
by Jim Ball | Jun 23, 2017 | Autism\, Blog, Education, Random Notes |
Random Note #189,393 — Autism in the classroom Although she might have mangled her message Pauline Hanson has a point with respect to those on the disruptive end of the autism spectrum in the classroom, but again, right on cue, the noisy outrage industry goes...
by Jim Ball | Jun 22, 2017 | Blog, Education, Random Notes |
Random Note #198,583 — Education funding Interesting to see all the papers talking up the education reforms as a big win. Politically perhaps but as we’ve seen over the last fifteen or twenty years, unless the basics are addressed, i.e. teacher quality...
by Jim Ball | May 2, 2017 | Blog, Education, What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
It doesn’t matter if you missed the original Kevin Donnelly column yesterday, Thought police screening schoolbooks you’ll get the general thrust. “..Kevin Donnelly is to be commended for calling out the manipulation of young minds through secondary...
by Jim Ball | Jan 29, 2017 | Blog, Drain The Swamp, Education, Trump |
When you consider our slide down the world various world rankings, it’s exactly the same in Australia. “….The Education Establishment makes everything murky and unproductive by an endless spew of jargon, incoherent theories, goofy methods, phony...
