Christine Braid Massey University theconversation.com If it wins the election, the National Party has vowed to shake up how children are taught to read and write. Part of this education overhaul includes a pledge to require the teaching of “structured literacy” in all year 0-6 classrooms. For many
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.
NM Zero point eight per cent. That’s the percentage of New Zealand’s population that was transgender or non-binary when measured by Statistics New Zealand in 2020. Yet this microscopic minority and its ideals are continuously being prioritised and enforced by the New Zealand Government through funding, access,
Robert W Malone MD, MS Inventor of mRNA & DNA vaccines, RNA as a drug. Scientist, physician, writer, podcaster, commentator and advocate. Believer in our fundamental freedom of free speech. rwmalonemd.substack.com By now, we probably have all heard about the Silver Spring Maryland elementary school that has put
I often wonder if the feminist left believes the ludicrous nonsense that they do, only because they judge everyone else by the toxic men they surround themselves with. Who can forget, after all, the sight of Harvey Weinstein marching against sexual assault at the 2017 Women’s March at Sundance?
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 Here’s some news the mainstream media don’t want to report: there is significant opposition to gender ideology being
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 I was intrigued to watch a TV news story (September 3) making a big deal out of a house in
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Two decades back I wrote “Degrees For Everyone”, a comic novel on the collapse of universities as centres of academia. Instead, I claimed, they were now commercial ventures, dishing out nonsense degrees in non-academic topics. Since then university degrees (excluding the sciences, philosophy et al)
familyfirst.org.nz MEDIA RELEASE – 1 September 2023 Teacher Not Using Preferred Pronouns Shouldn’t Be Deregistered – Poll A new nationwide poll has found significant opposition to a decision which resulted in a teacher losing his teaching licence for refusing to recognise a student’s gender ‘identity’ and using the
Shane Rogers Edith Cowan University Marc Hye-Knudsen Aarhus University theconversation.com This Father’s Day you may be rolling out your best ‘dad jokes’ and watching your children laugh (or groan). Maybe you’ll hear your own father, partner or friend crack a dad joke or two. You know
Alwyn Poole 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 years 11-13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for years 1-13. alwynpoole.substack.
Stephen Agnew University of Canterbury theconversation.com Even as an economics student at university, I remember heading into town on a Friday night knowing what I needed to pay the bills before I could spend on socialising. But despite having the financial literacy to know better, Monday could still sometimes
As I keep advising parents of today’s school-aged children: Homeschool your kids. In retrospect, it’s what I would have done, had I my druthers. Absolutely, were my kids school-aged now, it’s what I’d do. It’s not just that schools are clearly doing a
In a stunning scene from Fred Schepisi’s The Devil’s Playground, a priest delivers a terrifying sermon on the torments of hell. The priest is played by author Thomas Keneally, who would later talk of his “feeling of outrage that at the age of seven we were lumbered with
Yehezkel Laing Yehezkel Laing is a journalist, actor and filmmaker living in Jerusalem. aish.com For a hundred years scholars have been searching for the mysterious people who created the alphabet. Has the answer been under their nose all the time? The alphabet is such a basic part of our
