The Fish-Hooks With the Charter School Announcements
The Wellington Phoenix school and the Sisters United Academy must accept applications from all students/families and cannot add any criteria.
Education
Failing Upwards: The Incentives of Teachers’ Unions
Teachers unions reward failure because their incentives are upside down. It’s time to defund unaccountable union bosses and fund students instead.
These Courses Should Be Optional
Why would you take this highly controversial material and insist on making it compulsory for everyone? The university has done the right thing.
Teachers Must Get Back in the Classroom
As the left and media wage war against this government and parents and students lose faith.
The Kids Can’t Focus
Screens may seem to be the simple answer, but nothing about society is set up to support deep work or sustained attention.
Shining Light on Grooming in Tas Schools
Why are they so determined to keep their little secret?
Why Teachers’ Unions Should Stay Out of Foreign Politics
New Zealand’s classrooms are not political battlegrounds. They are places for learning.
Public Sector Strikers Throw a Massive Hissy Fit Despite Ministerial Pleas
Many New Zealanders who earn far less may see the strikes as self-serving rather than justified, reducing the unions’ moral leverage.
Don’t You Believe It!
Hipkins’ desire to hold the levers of power in his hot little hands is so great he would crawl over upturned beer bottle tops and even ‘dance with the devil’ to achieve that goal! That desire is probably due to the need to prove himself to all his many detractors and maybe even his mother.
Why Do They Keep Cancelling Each Other?
They invited anyone who agreed with them to add their names to the letter – and 2,000 academics duly obliged. Who do those witch-hunters remind you of? It’s inconceivable that they genuinely believed that scientific knowledge has no greater claim to being true than Māori mythology.
Funding the Education for Children With Challenges
Flaxmere College receives $262,720 of marginal funding per year as the highest EQI school in NZ. This is a 2.14 per cent addition to the funding level any high school in New Zealand receives. It works out at less than five dollars per student per day.
More Reasons to Home School Your Kids
Victorian schools secretly transitioning children.
Backing Woke Math Doesn’t Add Up Amid DEI Rollback
When it comes to math instruction, social justice means stripping it of basic features like numbers. The method, instructors explain, is designed to counter “European ways of knowing and doing.”