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Can We Fix the Education of Boys?

Can We Fix the Education of Boys?

Alwyn Poole www.innovativeeducation.co.nz www.alwynpoole.substack.com/ As I am preparing for the privilege of being on the education panel and 2023 NZ Economics Forum, I still shake my head at where we have got to. With regards to boys’ education, three graphs are telling. Keep in

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The Ivy League Doesn’t Want Asians

It’s an article of faith among the left that the West, especially the United States, is “institutionally racist”. This is almost a complete lie, of course: name one law or official policy that is actively racist. High rates of black incarceration don’t count: the laws are the same

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A Warped View of the World

Michael Cook * Full disclosure: the author is a member of Opus Dei. mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Four Corners, a flagship program on Australia’s ABC, broadcast a scathing attack on two private schools in Sydney on Monday evening. Their crime:

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Major Publishers Won’t Let ChatGPT Be Listed as an Author

Major Publishers Won’t Let ChatGPT Be Listed as an Author

Danny Kingsley Visiting Fellow, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science Australian National University Unless you’ve spent your summer on a digital detox, you’ve probably heard of ChatGPT: the latest AI chatbot taking the world by storm. Recent discussion about ChatGPT has focused on the risk

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New Boss Worse than the Old Boss

New Boss Worse than the Old Boss

Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz The cabinet reshuffle was predictable. Hipkins is, so far, our very worst Minister of Education. He has appointed someone who may well be worse: Jan Tinetti. Hipkins says: “As a former school principal and education expert new education minister is uniquely placed

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Is ChatGPT Telling The Truth?

Is ChatGPT Telling The Truth?

Blayne Haggart Associate Professor of Political Science Brock University Of all the reactions elicited by ChatGPT, the chatbot from the American for-profit company OpenAI that produces grammatically correct responses to natural-language queries, few have matched those of educators and academics. Academic publishers have moved to ban ChatGPT from being listed

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AI That Does Too Good a Job

AI That Does Too Good a Job

Brian Lucey Professor of International Finance and Commodities Trinity College Dublin Michael Dowling Professor of Finance Dublin City University Some of the world’s biggest academic journal publishers have banned or curbed their authors from using the advanced chatbot, ChatGPT. Because the bot uses information from the internet to produce

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Do We Trust the New PM?

Do We Trust the New PM?

Helen Houghton Co-leader New Conservative I wonder what criteria a person uses when they decide a leader is trustworthy. Is it from a recent statement where Prime Minister Chris Hipkins had no direction to be able to share with the New Zealand public because they are still yet to create

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Chris Hipkins Fails First Test

David Seymour ACT Party Leader Former Education Minister and now Prime Minister Chris Hipkins must front up and explain the poorly communicated overkill decision to close every Auckland school. Mayor Wayne Brown has been smashed for late decision making and poor communication during the Auckland floods. The Prime Minister is

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A Coup by Stealth

A Coup by Stealth

Were you worried about 3 Waters? Were you worried about a separate Maori health authority? Were you worried about The Canterbury Regional Council (Ngai Tahu Representation) Bill? Were you deeply worried about Co-Governance? I have good news for you! The good news is there is no need to worry about

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Closure of the Day

All schools and early childhood centres and tertiaries are to shut for a week in Auckland. Auckland principals say the Education Ministry has ordered a week-long shut down of all of the region’s education organisations. They say all Auckland schools, early childhood services and tertiary institutes must remain shut

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The Battle for Your Child’s Innocence

The Battle for Your Child’s Innocence

Family First familyfirst.org.nz PARENT GUIDE 2023 The PARENT GUIDE is entitled “THE BATTLE FOR YOUR CHILD’S INNOCENCE: How to protect your children from the state’s radical sexuality and gender ideologies in schools“. We’ve already highlighted just how radical the curriculum is which the Government wants

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They Say Education Is Free in NZ

They Say Education Is Free in NZ

Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz At this time of year (any year but with significant inflation presently accentuating things) the families we most need back into schools, organised and learning will have HUGE cost barriers. While the uniform cost at Middle School West Auckland is zero, most

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Can’t Read, Can’t Add, Can’t Think

Can’t Read, Can’t Add, Can’t Think

Some years ago, I was accosted on the street by a bunch of striking teachers, demanding that I support their campaign for yet another wage rise. I pointed out, first, that their pay was my taxes, so a pay rise for them meant less money for me. I also pointed

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The C-Word Is Not Allowed

The C-Word Is Not Allowed

A nurse rose as they entered and came to attention before the Director. “What’s the lesson this afternoon?” he asked. “We had Elementary Sex for the first forty minutes,” she answered. “But now it’s switched over to Elementary Class Consciousness.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Aldous Huxley intended

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Views of the Day

Views of the Day

Bob McCoskrie, of Family First, commented on the leaders and deputy leaders of Labour and National yesterday. We have a new prime minister, but if you thought that the radical social agenda would pause, or “reset Labour to the right” as some commentators have laughingly tried to claim, you just

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