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Three Witches in Charge of the Cauldron

Harry Palmer Jacinda Ardern was one of 15 ‘iconic’ women selected to appear on the cover of the September 2019 issue of British Vogue. It was even thought by some that, following in the footsteps of her fellow lefty globalist Barack Obama, she might even be awarded the 2019 Nobel

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All-Girls College Changes its Mind

Mary Margaret Olohan Mary Margaret Olohan is a senior reporter for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/  She previously reported for The Daily Caller and The Daily Wire, where she covered national politics as well as social and cultural issues. PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.

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The Benefits of Restructuring the MoE

Alwyn Poole Founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for year 11-13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for years 1-13. alwynpoole.substack.com Hands up if

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Does Money Really Make the Grades Go Up?

It’s a rusted-on nostrum of the powerful teachers’ unions that the only reason public schools are failing so miserably is money. Yet, year on year, taxpayers have shoveled more and more billions into public schools — and, year on year, academic results have remained in free-fall. No wonder teachers’ unions

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Harvard Is Learning Lessons the Hard Way

Harvard Is Learning Lessons the Hard Way

Influences at work during Covid twisted our thinking using irrational fear and withholding solutions that might have alleviated those fears; in the process revealing the absence of three big-ticket political items: genuine political opposition, a properly functioning fourth estate and academic institutions exhibiting fair and open debate. The pursuit of

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Harvard Plots Its Own Demise

Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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It’s Always Been Broken

Tani Newton In my last article, Socialism Saws Off the Branch It Sits On, I argued that the school system is collapsing because society is collapsing, society is collapsing because the family is collapsing and state schooling is a major driver of that because it undermines the natural family and

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What Can We Learn From The Past?

David Pomeroy Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education Jessica Shuker Initial Teacher Education Lecturer Kaitlin Riegel Postdoctoral Fellow University of Canterbury Nick Pratt Associate Professor of Education University of Plymouth Rafaan Daliri-Ngametua Lecturer in Education Australian Catholic University New Zealand primary and intermediate schools could soon be required to test children’

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Plagiarising Her Way to the Top

Plagiarising Her Way to the Top

Diversity hiring does it again! The odious Claudine Gay, Harvard’s diversity hire president, is finding herself in hot water, yet again. This time, it’s not her sleazy pandering to anti-Semitism, blatantly racist admissions program, or even her alleged bullying. Instead, it’s the allegation that Gay’s academic

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The Return of Partnership Schools in NZ

The Return of Partnership Schools in NZ

Alwyn Poole Founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. alwynpoole.substack.com The

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Who Is Running the Country?

Who Is Running the Country?

Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com This new government is barely two weeks old but already there are warning signs it’s not going to get

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Socialism Saws off the Branch It Sits On

Socialism Saws off the Branch It Sits On

Tani Newton Let’s get this straight: Family First is a wonderful organisation and I’m deeply thankful that it exists. Without it, New Zealand would be in a far worse plight than it is. I’ve supported it over many years, and I regularly pray for the organisation and

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More Evidence of Our Education Woes Plus … the Solutions

Alwyn Poole Founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. alwynpoole.substack.com Today’

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Study Shows Need to Remove Distractions in Class

Hon Erica Stanford Minister of Education The Government is committed to lifting school achievement in the basics and that starts with removing distractions so young people can focus on their learning, Education Minister Erica Stanford says. The 2022 PISA results released this week found that Kiwi kids ranked 5th in

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Teacher Faces Sack for ‘MAPs’ Talk

As I’ve written several times, if you want to picture an “institutional paedophile”, forget priests — picture a teacher, instead. Almost certainly, a female teacher approaching or in the throes of middle-age. That’s not to say that the churches don’t have a shameful record of past abuse and,

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Mori Arinori: The Japanese Tocqueville, Part 3

Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence W Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as Real

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